Pope, Mississippi.
Typical home $190,021 (+1.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$508 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,842 +2%
- $187,179$190,021 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,889 +10%
- $173,132$190,021 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.
- Pope$997
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Pope, MS rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pope, Panola County, Mississippi
Pope is a village of 268 people in Panola County. Unemployment in Panola County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Panola County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pope is a very small village in Panola County, Mississippi, with a population that is a tiny fraction of what most towns count. Homes here are valued above the typical household income in the county, which sits on the lower side. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, and summers run hot.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehouses, and the building trades also employing many. Across Panola County, the South Panola School District, Statewide Healthcare Services and Integrated Manufacturing Batesville are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Enid Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is George P. Cossar State Park, a protected area. Batesville Mounds, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Sardis Lake is a longer drive away.
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What people in Panola County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Panola County had 10,737 jobs in 2025, 3.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Batesville Southwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Panola County
- South Panola School DistrictSchool district721FTE
- Statewide Healthcare ServicesHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical349
- Integrated Manufacturing Batesville315
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters292
- United Comb & NoveltyPails, plastics, manufacturing235
- North Panola School DistrictSchool district216FTE
- Associated Steel GroupPrefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing210
- Foodservice Batesville199
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,957 people in all across the county; Pope has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pope’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Panola County.
Pope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pope$190,021
- 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.
- Pope8
Zip codes with a Pope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.