Richton, Mississippi.
Typical home $162,850 (+14.5% in a year). Hattiesburg, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$382 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,634 +15%
- $142,216$162,850 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,579 +4%
- $156,271$162,850 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.
- Richton$855
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 84 years.
Typical home values in Richton, MS rose 14.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richton, Perry County, Mississippi
Richton is a town of 920 people in Perry County. Half its households earn more than $35,057 a year and half less, against $49,634 across Perry County. Unemployment in Perry County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 5.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richton is a small town in Perry County, Mississippi, with a population that makes it one of the smaller places in the state. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a typical home is priced modestly. Winters are mild, with very little snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades, and very few work from home. Across Perry County, the biggest workplaces include Leaf River Cellulose, Hood Industries and the Perry County School District. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The closest of the nearby places is Bogue Homo, a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to De Soto National Forest, a protected area, and to the Pascagoula River, which suits time on the water. For a day out of a different kind, the Hattiesburg Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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- 2%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 2,220 jobs in 2025, 5.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beaumont Expstation weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Leaf River Cellulose344
- Perry CO School DistSchool district186FTE
- Deep South MachineAutomotive electrical repair shops118
- Hood IndustriesPlywood, softwood, manufacturing100
- Richton School DistSchool district91FTE
- Burkes MechanicalPipe fitting contractors84
- Pathway ManagementNursing homes58
- Perry County General HospitalCritical access hospital38FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 726 people in all across the county; Richton has two of its own. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Richton’s 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 Perry County and the Hattiesburg, MS metro.
Richton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richton$162,850
- 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.
- Richton9
Zip codes with a Richton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.