Quitman, Mississippi.
Typical home $100,219 (-6.3% in a year). Meridian, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$166 (+46%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,724 -6%
- $106,942$100,219 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $16,753 -14%
- $116,972$100,219 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.
- Quitman$526
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Quitman, MS fell 6.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Quitman, Clarke County, Mississippi
Quitman is a city of 2,061 people in Clarke County. Half its households earn more than $47,538 a year and half less, against $46,108 across Clarke County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Clarke County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clarke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Quitman is a small city and the seat of Clarke County in east Mississippi. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though a good many residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month and highs staying well above freezing, while summers are hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing a good share. The largest workplaces in town include the Quitman School District, Dart Container of Mississippi, which makes foam polystyrene products, and Howard Industries, which makes electric power transformers. Few people work from home, and the county has seen fewer jobs than it had the year before, though unemployment there has eased over the past year.
Things to do. Archusa Creek runs in or beside town, and Clarkco State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away for time outdoors. Chicwillasaw Creek is another short drive. For a day out with some art, the Meridian Museum of Art is a longer drive.
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- 817households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Clarke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clarke County had 2,828 jobs in 2025, 5.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 61 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the P Harrison Archusa weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Quitman
- Quitman School DistSchool district272FTE
- Dart Container of MississippiFoam polystyrene products manufacturing184
- Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman)Transformers, electric power, manufacturing115
- CmbiomassApplicators, wood, manufacturing36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 335 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Quitman’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Clarke County and the Meridian, MS metro.
Quitman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Quitman$100,219
- 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.
- Quitman16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Quitman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Quitman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.