Soso, Mississippi.
Typical home $168,366 (+0.1% in a year). Laurel, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$302 (+52%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $251 +0%
- $168,115$168,366 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,865 -8%
- $182,230$168,366 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.
- Soso$884
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Soso, MS rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Soso, Jones County, Mississippi
Soso is a town of 418 people in Jones County. Unemployment in Jones County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jones County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Soso is a very small town in Jones County, Mississippi, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and incomes across Jones County sit below the national middle. Winters are mild and summers are hot and wet, with rain falling through much of the year and snow rarely seen.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Jones County, some of the largest workplaces are Howard Industries, which makes electric transformers, South Central Regional Medical Center, and the Jones County School District. Few people work from home, and the trip to work is a moderate drive.
Things to do. The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is a short drive away and is the closest of the area's well-known stops. A longer drive brings you to Collins Zoo and the Hattiesburg Zoo, and to a number of creeks and small rivers, including Okatoma Creek, for time outdoors.
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- 7%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Jones County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jones County had 28,680 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laurel weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jones County
- Howard Industries Inc (Transformer)Distribution transformers, electric, manufacturing2,733
- South Central Regional Medical CentrGeneral hospital1,244FTE
- Jones CO School DistSchool district1,220FTE
- Amick Farms, LLC MS Processing PlantPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing1,103
- Southern HensPoultry manufacturing758
- Sanderson Farms Laurel ProcessingPoultry processing655
- Laurel School DistrictSchool district422FTE
- Jones County Junior CollegeTwo-year college417
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,545 people in all across the county; Soso has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Soso’s census tracts, 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 Jones County and the Laurel, MS metro.
Soso home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Soso$168,366
- 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 Soso address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Soso — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.