Stringer, Mississippi.
Typical home $156,182 (-2.6% in a year). Laurel, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$264 (+47%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,134 -3%
- $160,316$156,182 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $27,882 -15%
- $184,063$156,182 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.
- Stringer$820
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Stringer, MS fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stringer, Jasper County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Stringer on its own, so the figures here are Jasper County's. Half the county's households earn more than $48,660 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Jasper County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jasper County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stringer is a small town in Jasper County, in south-central Mississippi. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and many households have modest incomes, with a sizeable share of residents living below the poverty line. The median age is higher than many people expect for a place where families still gather around the same churches and schools.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in local shops. Unemployment across the county has fallen over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up. Few people work from home, and most commute by car, often for a good while each way.
Things to do. Bogue Ealiah is a river a short drive away, suited to a slow afternoon on the water. The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, a museum a longer drive away, holds one of the better-known collections in the region. Collins Zoo, also a longer drive away, is a zoo for a day out with the grandchildren.
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- 6,647households
- 41.9median age
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Jasper County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 3,926 jobs in 2025, 1.8% 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, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper County
- Peco Foods Inc.- Bay Springs ProcessingPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing720
- Hol-MacLadles, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing235
- West Jasper Consolidated SchoolsSchool district228FTE
- Hol-MacPneumatic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing187
- Hol-MacSpecial purpose highway vehicle assembling on purchased chassis181
- East Jasper Consolidated SCH Dist SchoolsSchool district159FTE
- Interfor Bay SpringsDimension lumber, made from logs or bolts155
- Pilgrim Construction CoConstruction management, oil and gas pipeline90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,815 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jasper 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 Jasper County and the Laurel, MS metro.
Stringer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stringer$156,182
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Stringer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stringer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.