Rolling Fork, Mississippi.
Typical home $98,140 (-11.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $84 (-14%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $12,488 -11%
- $110,628$98,140 since Sep 2025
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.
- Rolling Fork$515
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Rolling Fork, MS fell 11.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rolling Fork, Sharkey County, Mississippi
Rolling Fork is a city of 1,883 people in Sharkey County. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Sharkey County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rolling Fork is a small city in the Mississippi Delta, the seat of Sharkey County. It is a small town, with a population on the younger side compared with many places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Home values are modest, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical across the country. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and rainy.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in farming and forestry, and in transport and warehousing. Across Sharkey County, the largest workplaces include the South Delta School District, the Sharkey-Issaquena Community Hospital and Grundfest and Klaus Gin, a cotton ginning business. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is short. Nobody here works from home.
Things to do. Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a short drive away. Farther out, Delta National Forest is another protected area, a longer drive away. Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge, also a protected area, is likewise a longer drive away, and each makes a quiet outing among the Delta's woods and wetlands.
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- 691households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sharkey County had 933 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 55 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rolling Fork weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sharkey County
- South Delta School DistrictSchool district114FTE
- Sharkey-issaquena Comm HospitalCritical access hospital65FTE
- Grundfest and Klaus GinCotton ginning25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 25 people in all across the county; Rolling Fork has one 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rolling Fork’s census tracts, 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.
Rolling Fork home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rolling Fork$98,140
- 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 Rolling Fork address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rolling Fork — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.