Union, Mississippi.
Typical home $108,801 (-9.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$184 (+48%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $11,069 -9%
- $119,870$108,801 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $21,331 -16%
- $130,132$108,801 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.
- Union$571
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Union, MS fell 9.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Union, Newton County, Mississippi
Union is a town of 2,042 people in Newton County. Half its households earn more than $44,643 a year and half less, against $50,540 across Newton County. Unemployment in Newton County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Union is a small Mississippi town in Newton County, home to a small community at the last full census count. Household incomes in the town run below the county's, and homes here are priced modestly. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Union are Union Public School Dist, Ochsner Laird Hospital and Allied-Locke Industries. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home, so most people travel to a job, with a commute somewhat shorter than the national norm.
Things to do. Bienville National Forest is a protected area of woodland a longer drive away, and Golden Memorial State Park is another protected area at a similar distance. The Pearl River, the best known of the nearby waterways, is also a longer drive away and suits an outing by the water.
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- 744households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 5,081 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Philadelphia Wsw weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union
- Union Public School DistSchool district145FTE
- Ochsner Laird HospitalCritical access hospital105FTE
- Avardis HealthSkilled nursing facilities52
- Allied-Locke IndustriesSprockets, power transmission equipment, manufacturing41
- Tri-C Wood ProductsFlooring, wood, manufacturing21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 224 people in all. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Union’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 Newton County.
Union home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Union$108,801
- 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 Union address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Union — 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.