Saltillo, Mississippi.
Typical home $244,833 (+5.7% in a year). Tupelo, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$687 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,231 +6%
- $231,602$244,833 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,687 +27%
- $193,146$244,833 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.
- Saltillo$1,285
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Saltillo, MS rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saltillo, Lee County, Mississippi
Saltillo is a city of 4,922 people in Lee County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Lee County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saltillo is a small city where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than most places. Residents are younger on average than in many towns, and the typical home is valued well above what many older homeowners might expect for this part of Mississippi. Poverty is low, and household incomes sit close to the county's.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels also common. Some of the largest workplaces in Saltillo are Smurfit Westrock Tupelo, which makes corrugated boxes, WestRock CP, and Liberty Tire Recycling. The commute is fairly short, and few people work from home. Unemployment across Lee County has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs there slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. The Elvis Presley Birthplace, a museum, is a short drive away, as is the Natchez Trace Parkway, a protected area good for a long, quiet drive. Brice's Cross Roads National Battlefield Site, an archaeological site tied to the Civil War, is also a short drive away. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain is plentiful through the year.
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- 2,000households
- 7%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 52,044 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tupelo weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saltillo
- Smurfit Westrock TupeloBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard188
- WestRock CPCorrugated and solid fiber boxes188
- Liberty Tire Recycling - SaltilloTires, scrap, merchant wholesalers33
- Creekside ManorAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities25
- SaltilloMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 457 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saltillo’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 Lee County and the Tupelo, MS metro.
Saltillo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saltillo$244,833
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Saltillo listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Saltillo29.35%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saltillo83
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saltillo16
Zip codes with a Saltillo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saltillo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.