Sarah, Mississippi.
Typical home $237,548 (+4.0% in a year). Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$650 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,093 +4%
- $228,454$237,548 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,130 +19%
- $200,418$237,548 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.
- Sarah$1,247
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Sarah, MS rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sarah, Tate County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Sarah on its own, so the figures here are Tate County's. Half the county's households earn more than $69,704 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Tate County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tate County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sarah sits in Tate County in north Mississippi, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical resident is in middle age. Winters are mild with little snow, summers are hot, and rain falls heavily through the year.
Work. Across Tate County, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has grown. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in manufacturing, or in professional and business services. Fewer adults hold a degree than across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Arkabutla Creek is a short drive away, and the Delta Cultural Center and John W. Kyle State Park are a longer drive off. The cultural center is a museum, and the state park is a protected area for those who want to spend time outdoors.
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- 11,018households
- 38.5median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Tate County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tate County had 6,604 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Senatobia weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tate County
- ABAir circuit breakers manufacturing784
- Northwest Mississippi Community CollegeTwo-year college769
- Senatobia Municipal School DistSchool district306FTE
- Tate CO School DistSchool district294FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Highland Hills Medical CenterGeneral hospital68FTE
- FXIPolyurethane foam products manufacturing58
- Providence PCC of SenatobiaBuilding, apartment, rental or leasing50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,251 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Tate County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Tate County and the Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
Sarah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sarah$237,548
- 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 Sarah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sarah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.