Steens, Mississippi.
Typical home $221,478 (+2.2% in a year). Columbus, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$543 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,709 +2%
- $216,769$221,478 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,904 +14%
- $194,574$221,478 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.
- Steens$1,162
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Steens, MS rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Steens, Lowndes County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Steens on its own, so the figures here are Lowndes County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,812 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 61% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Lowndes County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lowndes County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Steens is a small community in Lowndes County, Mississippi. Across the county, the typical resident is of working age, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than across most of the country. Winters are cool with little or no snow, summers are very hot, and rain falls heavily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs grew last year. Few people work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country.
Things to do. Lake Lowndes State Park, a protected area, and Plymouth, an archaeological site, are both a longer drive away. Davis Wade Stadium, also a longer drive away, is a stadium.
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- 23,006households
- 37.6median age
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Lowndes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lowndes County had 26,162 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 73°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lowndes County
- Baptist MEM Hospital Golden TriangleGeneral hospital983FTE
- Lowndes CO School DistSchool district859FTE
- Columbus Municipal School DistSchool district546FTE
- Paccar Engine CompanyDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing533
- Mississippi University for WomenUniversity or college451
- Bracken Construction CompanyIndustrial building construction401
- International PaperDeinking plants367
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters364
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,662 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lowndes 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 Lowndes County and the Columbus, MS metro.
Steens home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Steens$221,478
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Steens8
Zip codes with a Steens address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Steens — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.