Tunica, Mississippi.
Typical home $146,920 (+1.6% in a year). Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$279 (+57%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,246 +2%
- $144,673$146,920 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,311 -8%
- $160,231$146,920 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.
- Tunica$771
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Tunica, MS rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tunica, Tunica County, Mississippi
Tunica is a town of 1,026 people in Tunica County. Unemployment in Tunica County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tunica County work in restaurants and hotels, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tunica is a very small town in the Mississippi Delta, home to far fewer people than most towns on this site. Household incomes across Tunica County run below what is typical for the country, and homes here cost less than in much of the country. Winters are mild and short, with a little snow now and then, and summers are long and hot. Rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and others in transport, warehouses and utilities, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. The county's largest workplaces include Gold Strike Casino Resort, Horseshoe Tunica Casino and Hotel, and the Tunica County School District. Very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has edged up over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. The Tunica Museum sits in or beside town, and Tunica Lake is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Delta Cultural Center is a museum a longer drive away, and the St. Francis River is a river a longer drive away.
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- 4%work from home
What people in Tunica County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tunica County had 5,469 jobs in 2025, 5.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tunica North weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tunica County
- Gold Strike Casino ResortHotels, resort, with casinos1,015
- Horseshoe Tunica Casino and HotelCasino hotels923
- Tunica County School DistrictSchool district315FTE
- Majestic MississippiHotels, casino285
- Boyd GamingHotel casino155
- The Burks CompaniesBuilding cleaning services, janitorial106
- Long Term Care ManagementSkilled nursing facilities76
- The Burks CompaniesBuilding cleaning services, janitorial51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,660 people in all across the county; Tunica has one of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tunica’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Tunica County and the Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
Tunica home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tunica$146,920
- 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.
- Tunica5
Zip codes with a Tunica address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tunica — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.