Sandy Hook, Mississippi.
Typical home $152,098 (+1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$344 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,934 +1%
- $150,164$152,098 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,174 +1%
- $149,923$152,098 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.
- Sandy Hook$798
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sandy Hook, MS rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Sandy Hook, Marion County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Sandy Hook on its own, so the figures here are Marion County's. Half the county's households earn more than $45,110 a year and half less; 20% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sandy Hook is a small community in Marion County, in the southern part of Mississippi. Winters are mild here, with little or no snow, though nights in January can turn cold. Summers are hot and humid, and a good deal of rain falls across the year.
Work. Across Marion County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Incomes sit below the national median, a larger share of people live below the poverty line than in most of the country, and working from home is uncommon.
Things to do. Bogue Chitto State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, offering woods and quiet outdoor space. Lake Bill Waller is a lake, also a longer drive away, and Hickory Creek is a river a longer drive away for anyone who likes being on or near the water.
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- 9,122households
- 40.8median age
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 8,361 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tylertown 5ESE weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- MDR ConstructionUtility line, construction745
- Marion CO School DistSchool district339FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- Looks Great Services ofShrub services255
- Columbia School DistrictSchool district252FTE
- Crown Health Care Laundry ServicesHealthcare laundry processing location231
- Columbia Rehabilitation & Health @ NexionConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals106
- Marion General HospitalGeneral hospital105FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,839 people in all. 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 moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Marion 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 Marion County.
Sandy Hook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sandy Hook$152,098
- 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 Sandy Hook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sandy Hook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.