Vardaman, Mississippi.
Typical home $119,983 (-2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$221 (+54%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $3,603 -3%
- $123,586$119,983 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $12,310 -9%
- $132,293$119,983 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.
- Vardaman$630
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Vardaman, MS fell 2.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vardaman, Calhoun County, Mississippi
Vardaman is a town of 1,110 people in Calhoun County. Half its households earn more than $38,456 a year and half less, against $43,125 across Calhoun County. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vardaman is a small town in Calhoun County, Mississippi, with a young population compared with many places, where the typical resident is in the early years of adulthood or younger. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes are modest in price. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home, so most daily life happens in and around town.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with some farming, forestry and mining as well. Across Calhoun County, the largest workplaces include the school district, the lumber company Weyerhaeuser, and Haworth Bruce, which makes office chairs. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Getting outdoors means a longer drive. The Big Black River is the best known of the nearby places, and Bogue Culley is another river within a longer drive. For history, Bynum Mound and Village Site and Owl Creek Mounds are archaeological sites, each a longer drive away. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
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- 390households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 2,868 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Calhoun City weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Calhoun CO School DistSchool district388FTE
- WeyerhaeuserLumber193
- Haworth BruceChairs, office-type, manufacturing190
- BMH - CalhounCritical access hospital145FTE
- Baptist- Calhoun Nursing HomeNursing homes125
- Topashaw FarmsSweet potato packing and processing50
- Spratlin Building SupplyHome centers, building materials23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 712 people in all across the county; Vardaman has none of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vardaman’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 Calhoun County.
Vardaman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vardaman$119,983
- 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.
- Vardaman6
Zip codes with a Vardaman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vardaman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Vardaman
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38916 | Calhoun City | 4,606 | — | $118,688 |
| 38878 | Vardaman | 2,449 | — | $118,892 |