Pinola, Mississippi.
Typical home $143,609 (-1.5% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$199 (+36%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $2,226 -2%
- $145,835$143,609 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $38,452 -21%
- $182,061$143,609 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Pinola$754
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Pinola, MS fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pinola, Simpson County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Pinola on its own, so the figures here are Simpson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $56,381 a year and half less; 20% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Simpson County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 7.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Simpson County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Across Simpson County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a sizable share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool, summers are hot, snow is rare, and rain falls for much of the year.
Work. Most jobs across the county are in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, and building trades. Unemployment is lower than it was the year before, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Strong River is a river a short drive away, well suited to a relaxed afternoon outdoors. Lake Lincoln State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, offers a quieter outing among natural surroundings.
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- 9,543households
- 40.6median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Simpson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Simpson County had 7,110 jobs in 2025, 7.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 1 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the D'lo Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Simpson County
- Millcreek of Mississippi Main CampusPRTFICFMRPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals575
- Simpson CO School DistSchool district465FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- Howard Industries Inc. (Mendenhall)Fluorescent lighting fixtures, commercial, institutional, and industrial electric, manufacturing156
- Magee General HospitalGeneral hospital138FTE
- Simpson General Hospital CAHCritical access hospital126FTE
- Hillcrest Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities96
- Bedford Care Center of MendenhallSkilled nursing facilities75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,408 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Simpson County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Simpson County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Pinola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pinola$143,609
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pinola6
Zip codes with a Pinola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pinola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.