Ruth, Mississippi.
Typical home $166,079 (+7.5% in a year). Brookhaven, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$336 (+63%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,586 +7%
- $154,493$166,079 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $672 -0%
- $166,751$166,079 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.
- Ruth$872
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ruth, MS rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ruth, Lincoln County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Ruth on its own, so the figures here are Lincoln County's. Half the county's households earn more than $51,119 a year and half less; 21% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ruth sits in Lincoln County, Mississippi, where most homes are lived in by their owners. The county's residents are somewhat older on average than the country as a whole, and a larger share of them live below the poverty line than the national rate. Homes here are generally priced below national levels, and winters are milder than in most of the country, while summers are hot and rain is plentiful.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in manufacturing. Unemployment across the county has fallen over the past year, though the number of jobs has dipped a little recently. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Percy Quin State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and is one of the best known places nearby. Lake Lincoln State Park, another protected area, is also a longer drive away. The Minnehaha River, a river a longer drive away, offers another option for those who enjoy time on the water.
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- 13,158households
- 41.5median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 12,550 jobs in 2025, 1.7% 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 August, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brookhaven City weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage835
- Kings Daughters Medical CenterGeneral hospital539FTE
- McLaneDistribution of a general line of groceries470
- Brookhaven School DistSchool district458FTE
- Lincoln County School DistrictSchool district409FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters356
- Aptiv Connections USWiring harness and ignition sets for internal combustion engines manufacturing296
- WalmartGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload276
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,235 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lincoln County, 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. More on Lincoln County and the Brookhaven, MS metro.
Ruth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ruth$166,079
- 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 Ruth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ruth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.