Vancleave, Mississippi.
Typical home $283,681 (+3.4% in a year). Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$772 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,339 +3%
- $274,342$283,681 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,193 +23%
- $230,489$283,681 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.
- Vancleave$1,489
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Vancleave, MS rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vancleave, Jackson County, Mississippi
Vancleave, in Jackson County, had 5,592 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vancleave is a small community where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a far higher share of owners than is typical across the country. Few residents live below the poverty line, and a home here costs a fair amount more than many people expect for a Gulf Coast community. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, while summers are hot and the year is a wet one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are the Huntington Ingalls shipyard, Singing River Health System and the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery. Joblessness in the county is low and has eased from a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum, and to Shepard State Park, another protected area. The Fowl River and Red Creek are also within a longer drive for time on the water.
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- 1,944households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 50,095 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pascagoula Lott International Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Huntington IngallsShipyard11,642
- Singing River Health SystemGeneral hospital2,281FTE
- Chevron Pascagoula RefineryCrude petroleum refineries1,585
- Bollinger Mississippi ShipbuildingShipyard1,409
- Pascagoula-gautier School DistrictSchool district1,360FTE
- Jackson CO School DistSchool district1,273FTE
- Ocean Springs School DistSchool district814FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters409
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,023 people in all across the county; Vancleave has two 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of VancleaveRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of VancleaveRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of VancleaveRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of VancleaveRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vancleave’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 Jackson County and the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro.
Vancleave home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vancleave$283,681
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Vancleave listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Vancleave36.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vancleave48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vancleave12
Zip codes with a Vancleave address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vancleave — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.