Sunflower, Mississippi.
Typical home $83,426 (-4.6% in a year). Indianola, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $20 (-4%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Down $4,014 -5%
- $87,441$83,426 since Sep 2025
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.
- Sunflower$438
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sunflower, MS fell 4.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunflower, Sunflower County, Mississippi
Sunflower is a town of 964 people in Sunflower County. 43% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 57% are rented. Unemployment in Sunflower County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sunflower 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunflower is a very small town in the Mississippi Delta, with a younger population than much of the country. Fewer homes here are lived in by their owners than in most places, and homes sell for far less than the national typical. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and incomes in the county run below the national level. Winters are mild and almost snowless, summers are hot, and the rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Sunflower County, the biggest workplaces include the Sunflower County Consolidated School District, North Sunflower County Hospital and Mississippi Delta Community College. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. A typical commute is a fairly short drive.
Things to do. The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center is a museum a short drive away, and the Quiver River is also close by. The Yazoo River is a longer drive away, and it is one of the better known waterways of the region. Mathews Brake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 380households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Sunflower County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sunflower County had 8,082 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moorhead weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sunflower County
- IndianolaGeneral warehousing and storage587
- Sunflower CTY Cons School DistrictSchool district547FTE
- North Sunflower County HospitalCritical access hospital378FTE
- Mississippi Delta Community CollegeTwo-year college284
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters218
- South Sunflower County HospitalGeneral hospital162FTE
- VitalCore Health StrategiesHome nursing services, private practice151
- Ruleville Community Care CenterNursing homes147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,472 people in all across the county; Sunflower has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sunflower’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 Sunflower County and the Indianola, MS metro.
Sunflower home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunflower$83,426
- 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 Sunflower address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunflower — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.