Sumner, Mississippi.
Typical home $131,081 (+0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$5 (+1%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $858 +1%
- $130,224$131,081 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $104,847 -44%
- $235,929$131,081 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.
- Sumner$688
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Sumner, MS rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sumner, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
Sumner is a town of 278 people in Tallahatchie County. Unemployment in Tallahatchie County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tallahatchie 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sumner is a very small town in the Mississippi Delta, in Tallahatchie County, where the land is flat and farming has long shaped daily life. Homes here cost much less than in most of the country, and household incomes across the county run well below the national level. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls in good amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining also providing jobs. Across Tallahatchie County, the largest workplaces include Tallahatchie Critical Access Hospita, the East Tallahatchie Consol SCH Dist Schools and the West Tallahatchie School District. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest of the places worth a visit. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Delta Blues Museum, a museum devoted to the music that grew out of this region. Enid Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away and suits a day by the water.
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What people in Tallahatchie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tallahatchie County had 2,798 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lambert 1W weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tallahatchie County
- Tallahatchie Critical Access HospitaCritical access hospital276FTE
- East Tallahatchie Consol SCH Dist SchoolsSchool district155FTE
- West Tallahatchie School DistrictSchool district114FTE
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction107
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 107 people in all across the county; Sumner has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sumner’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Tallahatchie County.
Sumner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sumner$131,081
- 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 Sumner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sumner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.