Vaiden, Mississippi.
Typical home $145,178 (-12.6% in a year). Greenwood, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$172 (+29%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $20,990 -13%
- $166,168$145,178 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $55,264 -28%
- $200,442$145,178 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.
- Vaiden$762
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Vaiden, MS fell 12.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vaiden, Carroll County, Mississippi
Vaiden is a town of 907 people in Carroll County. Unemployment in Carroll County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carroll County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vaiden is a very small Mississippi town in Carroll County, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country. Winters are mild and brief, with snow a rare sight, and summers are hot, with rainfall spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in the building trades, in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in manufacturing. Across Carroll County, the largest workplace is the Carroll County School District. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the county has seen a small drop in jobs over the past year even as unemployment has eased.
Things to do. Most outdoor options are a longer drive away. The Yazoo River is the best known, and Holmes County State Park offers a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Mathews Brake National Wildlife Refuge, also a longer drive away, is another protected area suited to those who enjoy quiet nature.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
What people in Carroll County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 1,025 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 66°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winona East weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Carroll County School DistSchool district120FTE
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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Vaiden’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 Carroll County and the Greenwood, MS metro.
Vaiden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vaiden$145,178
- 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.
- Vaiden7
Zip codes with a Vaiden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vaiden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.