Prairie, Mississippi.
Typical home $135,266 (-1.0% in a year). West Point, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$189 (+36%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,317 -1%
- $136,584$135,266 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $38,379 -22%
- $173,645$135,266 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.
- Prairie$710
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Prairie, MS fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prairie, Clay County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Prairie on its own, so the figures here are Clay County's. Half the county's households earn more than $43,125 a year and half less; 21% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Clay County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clay County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prairie is a small community in Clay County, Mississippi, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Household incomes are lower than in many parts of the country, and a fair share of residents live below the poverty line. Summers are hot, winters are mild with little or no snow, and the area gets plenty of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Across Clay County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs has dipped slightly over the same period. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Most people commute to work, and working from home is less common here than in most of the country.
Things to do. Bogue Culley is a river a short drive away, which suits an easy outing close to home. For a longer trip, Davis Wade Stadium is a stadium a longer drive away, and Bynum Mound and Village Site is an archaeological site also a longer drive away.
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- 7,805households
- 39.8median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Clay County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 6,482 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer 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 July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 54 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aberdeen weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clay County
- Peco Foods Inc.- West PointPoultry manufacturing775
- West Point Consolidated School DistSchool district437FTE
- Clay County MedicalGeneral hospital250FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Fabricators SupplyStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing170
- Plum Creek Environmental TechnologiesWaste container manufacturer150
- The Golf Clubs of MississippiCountry clubs150
- Ellis Steel Company, Inc. StructuralStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing81
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,216 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clay County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Clay County and the West Point, MS metro.
Prairie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prairie$135,266
- 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.
Zip codes with a Prairie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prairie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.