Rent, home values, family budgets, pay and taxes for the Jackson metro area, county by county.
Across the 7 counties in the metro with their own Zillow home value, the median typical home is worth $131,010. Values changed +2.3% over the past year and +3.2% over five years at the median county. A typical home costs 2.15 years of median family income at the median county.
With 10% down at 7.03%, the average 30-year rate on September 24, 2026, that home costs about $1,122 a month with tax, insurance and mortgage insurance, which takes $48,098 a year of income under the usual 28% guideline. The median family can afford its own county's typical home in 6 of the 7 counties, against 44.9% of counties nationally. Try it with your own income.
The most expensive counties in the metro are Madison County ($335,831), Rankin County ($270,377) and Simpson County ($161,480); the least expensive are Holmes County ($81,845), Yazoo County ($109,344) and Hinds County ($130,448).
The Economic Policy Institute prices what a modest but adequate standard of living costs in every county. In the median county of the metro, that comes to $46,010 a year for one adult and $94,575 for two adults and two children, of which $14,399 is childcare, against national averages of $47,367 and $101,771. Median family income is $64,496 in the median county.
Prices across Mississippi as a whole run 13.0% below the national average and rents 43.5% below the national average, by the Bureau of Economic Analysis's state measure. Median pay across all jobs in the state is $40,120 a year. Mississippi's top income tax rate on wages is 4%. These are statewide figures, not measured for the metro itself. The metro lies within Mississippi. Compare a salary with another state or work out take-home pay.
| Copiah County | $131,010 | +2.9% | — | $61,027 | $93,913 |
| Hinds County | $130,448 | +2.3% | $1,303 | $64,496 | $99,740 |
| Holmes County | $81,845 | −7.7% | — | $41,586 | $93,553 |
| Madison County | $335,831 | +1.3% | $1,716 | $102,157 | $103,471 |
| Rankin County | $270,377 | +3.2% | $1,695 | $95,693 | $106,574 |
| Simpson County | $161,480 | −0.8% | — | $65,097 | $93,986 |
| Yazoo County | $109,344 | +6.2% | — | $54,480 | $94,575 |
A dash means the source publishes no figure for that county. Metro membership follows Zillow's own county-to-metro assignment.
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