Sturgis, Mississippi.
Typical home $186,308 (+5.7% in a year). Starkville, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$480 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,124 +6%
- $176,184$186,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,760 +18%
- $158,548$186,308 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.
- Sturgis$978
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Sturgis, MS rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sturgis, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
Sturgis is a town of 207 people in Oktibbeha County. Unemployment in Oktibbeha County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oktibbeha 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sturgis is a very small Mississippi town, one of the smaller places in Oktibbeha County, and most of the county's life happens somewhere else. Homes here are valued below what is typical for the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain is steady and generous through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels close behind. The county's largest workplaces include Mississippi State University, the Starkville-Oktibbeha school district and Oktibbeha County Hospital. Most people drive a fair way to work, and very few work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Boughenia Creek runs in or beside town, and Choctaw Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Tombigbee National Forest, a protected area, is also a short drive away, and suits walking and time outdoors. For a longer outing, Davis Wade Stadium is a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Oktibbeha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oktibbeha County had 20,613 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Louisville weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oktibbeha County
- Mississippi State UniversityUniversity or college5,451
- Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist SchoolsSchool district850FTE
- Clark Beverage Group Inc. (MS)Beverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers661
- Oktibbeha County HospitalGeneral hospital495FTE
- Aramark MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITYFood service contractors405
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters338
- SouthwireCopper rolling, drawing, extruding, and alloying292
- Kroger Delta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores181
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,346 people in all across the county; Sturgis 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sturgis’ 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 Oktibbeha County and the Starkville, MS metro.
Sturgis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sturgis$186,308
- 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.
- Sturgis11
Zip codes with a Sturgis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sturgis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.