Wesson, Mississippi.
Typical home $171,652 (+0.5% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$404 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $900 +1%
- $170,752$171,652 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,972 +10%
- $156,680$171,652 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.
- Wesson$901
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Wesson, MS rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wesson, Copiah County, Mississippi
Wesson is a town of 1,833 people in Copiah County. Unemployment in Copiah County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wesson is a small Mississippi town in Copiah County, and its population is much younger than most places, a mix that comes with a college community close by. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and the typical household earns less than the county's median. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Across Copiah County, the largest workplaces include Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Processing, Copiah-Lincoln Community College and Hitachi Energy USA, Inc. Crystal Springs. Most people travel a fair way to their jobs, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. Lake Lincoln State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest place to get outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to Bahala Creek and the Strong River, both good for time by the water. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 617households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Copiah County had 6,427 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hazlehurst Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Copiah County
- Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst ProcessingPoultry processing645
- Copiah-Lincoln Community CollegeTwo-year college457
- Hitachi Energy USA, inc. Crystal SpringsPower transformers, electric, manufacturing428
- Copiah CO School DistSchool district311FTE
- DG FoodsChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked275
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Hazlehurst City School DistrictSchool district200FTE
- Copiah County Medical CenterCritical access hospital169FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,037 people in all across the county; Wesson has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wesson’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 Copiah County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Wesson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wesson$171,652
- 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.
- Wesson9
Zip codes with a Wesson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wesson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.