Pulaski, Mississippi.
Typical home $146,558 (+2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$297 (+63%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $4,176 +3%
- $142,382$146,558 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $7,487 -5%
- $154,044$146,558 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.
- Pulaski$769
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Pulaski, MS rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pulaski, Smith County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Pulaski on its own, so the figures here are Smith County's. Half the county's households earn more than $60,916 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 87% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Smith County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Smith 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pulaski is a small community in Smith County, in the Piney Woods of central Mississippi, where many people know one another and life moves at a slower pace than in the state's larger cities. Winters are mild, with little snow and cold spells that are brief, while summers are hot and the summer months are the warmest of the year. Rain falls heavily across the year, so the land is green and wet for much of it.
Work. Across Smith County, the most common jobs are in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, transport, warehouses and utilities, and retail shops. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Most people drive to work, and working from home is uncommon, while fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country.
Things to do. Bienville National Forest and Roosevelt State Park are both protected areas a short drive away, offering woodland walks and open land typical of the region. Shongelo Lake, also a short drive away, is a lake suited to a quiet afternoon outdoors. Moore Lookout Tower, a tourist attraction a short drive away, is another option for a short outing.
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- 5,592households
- 43.5median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Smith County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Smith County had 2,711 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Raleigh 6N weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Smith County
- Taylorsville Plywood559
- Smith CO School DistSchool district348FTE
- Ms Care Center of RaleighNursing homes240
- Southern Pine ElectricDistribution of electric power142
- Gibraltar IndustriesPatterns, industrial, manufacturing138
- Bakelite ChemicalsOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing53
- WarmkraftTextile products finishing25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,157 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- 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 Smith 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 Smith County.
Pulaski home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pulaski$146,558
- 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 Pulaski address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pulaski — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.