Rienzi, Mississippi.
Typical home $172,031 (+4.8% in a year). Corinth, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$437 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,850 +5%
- $164,181$172,031 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,493 +9%
- $157,538$172,031 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.
- Rienzi$903
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Rienzi, MS rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rienzi, Alcorn County, Mississippi
Rienzi is a town of 281 people in Alcorn County. Unemployment in Alcorn County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Alcorn 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rienzi is a very small town in Alcorn County, in the northeast corner of Mississippi. Homes here cost less than the typical home across much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Alcorn County, some of the largest workplaces are Mississippi Reman, which makes diesel engines, Magnolia Hospital, and the Alcorn School District. The trip to work is a little longer than a quick drive across town.
Things to do. Tarlechia Creek is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Pickwick Lake, a reservoir, and to Shiloh National Military Park, an archaeological site that is also among the area's best-known historic grounds. The Natchez Trace Trail, also a longer drive off, offers a trail for walking.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Alcorn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alcorn County had 13,324 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Booneville weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alcorn County
- Mississippi RemanDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing1,066
- Magnolia HospitalGeneral hospital775FTE
- Alcorn School DistSchool district478FTE
- KeytronicPrinted circuit boards loading354
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters346
- Corinth School DistSchool district331FTE
- Statewide Healthcare ServicesHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical255
- Kimberly Clark GNWCarpet paddings, nonwoven, manufacturing254
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,324 people in all across the county; Rienzi has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rienzi’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 Alcorn County and the Corinth, MS metro.
Rienzi home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rienzi$172,031
- 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.
- Rienzi12
Zip codes with a Rienzi address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rienzi — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.