Purvis, Mississippi.
Typical home $240,884 (+5.0% in a year), asking rent $1,052 . Hattiesburg, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$686 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,517 +5%
- $229,367$240,884 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,143 +30%
- $185,740$240,884 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.
- Purvis$1,264
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Purvis, MS rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Purvis, Lamar County, Mississippi
Purvis is a city of 1,909 people in Lamar County. Half its households earn more than $45,667 a year and half less, against $70,909 across Lamar County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Lamar County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lamar County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Purvis is a small city in Lamar County, Mississippi, with a young population compared with much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes in town run well below the county's. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow in a typical year, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the seasons.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants and hotels, manufacturing and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Purvis are the Lamar County School District, Evergreen Lumber & Truss and Purvis Forest Products. Fewer than the typical American share of adults hold a four-year degree, and almost everyone travels to work rather than working from home. Job numbers across Lamar County have grown over the past year, and unemployment there has eased.
Things to do. Paul B. Johnson State Park, a protected area, and Hickory Hills Lake are both a short drive away, which makes outdoor time easy to come by. A longer drive brings you to De Soto National Forest, a large protected area, and to the Hattiesburg Zoo.
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- 670households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Lamar County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lamar County had 20,964 jobs in 2025, 4.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 64 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hattiesburg 5SW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Purvis
- Lamar County School DistrictSchool district1,525FTE
- Evergreen Lumber & TrussCants, resawed, manufacturing50
- Lowe's Companies, INCBuilding materials33
- Purvis Forest ProductsLogging27
- Cook Portable Warehouses (Purvis)Buildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing22
- PurvisMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 152 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 high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Purvis’ 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 Lamar County and the Hattiesburg, MS metro.
Purvis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Purvis$240,884
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Purvis listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Purvis29.79%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Purvis50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Purvis15
Zip codes with a Purvis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Purvis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.