Shaw, Mississippi.
Typical home $79,749 (-11.7% in a year). Cleveland, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $24 (-5%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,585 -12%
- $90,334$79,749 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $41,285 -34%
- $121,033$79,749 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.
- Shaw$419
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Shaw, MS fell 11.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shaw, Bolivar County, Mississippi
Shaw is a city of 1,457 people in Bolivar County. Unemployment in Bolivar County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bolivar County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shaw is a small Delta city in Bolivar County, with a population that makes it a place where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are inexpensive, and household incomes across Bolivar County sit below those of much of the country. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Bolivar County, some of the largest workplaces are Delta State University, Baxter Healthcare and Bolivar Medical Center. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. For a short outing, Bogue Hasty, a river, is a short drive away. A longer drive reaches the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, a museum, and Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. Grammy Museum Mississippi is another museum a longer drive off.
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- 672households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Bolivar County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bolivar County had 10,505 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 2 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bolivar County
- Delta State UniversityUniversity or college629
- Baxter HealthcareBottles, plastics, manufacturing510
- Cleveland School DistSchool district460FTE
- Bolivar Medical CenterGeneral hospital333FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- West Bolivar Cons School DistSchool district180FTE
- North Bolivar Cons School DistSchool district147FTE
- Needle Specialty ProductsNeedles, hypodermic and suture, manufacturing143
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,454 people in all across the county; Shaw has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shaw’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 Bolivar County and the Cleveland, MS metro.
Shaw home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shaw$79,749
- 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 Shaw address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shaw — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.