Port Gibson, Mississippi.
Typical home $79,707 (-9.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$6 (+1%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,425 -10%
- $88,131$79,707 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $56,709 -42%
- $136,416$79,707 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.
- Port Gibson$418
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Port Gibson, MS fell 9.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi
Port Gibson is a city of 1,269 people in Claiborne County. Unemployment in Claiborne County was 7.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Claiborne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Port Gibson is a very small city in Claiborne County, Mississippi, where a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than is typical for the country. Incomes across the county run well below the county-to-county norm for the nation, and homes are valued low as well. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the rain falls fairly steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and government close behind. Across Claiborne County, the largest workplaces include Entergy Operation, Alcorn State University and the Claiborne County School District. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, though job numbers have barely moved, and the typical commute is a fairly short drive, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. History is the main draw nearby. Port Gibson Battlefield, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town, and Grand Gulf Military State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Bruin State Park offers a protected area to visit, and the USS Cairo museum is a longer drive away.
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- 573households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Claiborne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Claiborne County had 3,260 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Port Gibson Northeast weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Claiborne County
- Entergy OperationElectric power generation, nuclear745
- Alcorn State UniversityUniversity or college630
- Claiborne CO School DistSchool district202FTE
- NSlC SOUTHERNBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts97
- Claiborne County HospitalCritical access hospital87FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 842 people in all across the county; Port Gibson has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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 high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Port Gibson’s census tracts, 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 Claiborne County.
Port Gibson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Port Gibson$79,707
- 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.
- Port Gibson19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Port Gibson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Port Gibson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.