The story of this market
The typical home in Benton County, Mississippi sells for about $160,000, or $243 per square foot.
Prices are up +11.05% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 27 days to sell, which is fast. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $905 a month.
HUD sets the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom at $905 a month. FEMA's National Risk Index rates overall hazard risk here as Relatively Moderate.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+2.5%
MS · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Rent benchmark
Fair market rent by size
$1,127
3-bed / month
HUD Fair Market Rents, fiscal 2027, for this county. A typical rent for a modest unit, used to set housing-voucher payments.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
70
Relatively Moderate
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $3,725,066.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
63.6%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 264 | 123 | 63.6% | 19.5% | $90,000 |
CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records: every mortgage application reported by lenders for homes in this county. Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded). Investor share and home value are the median census tract.
Benton County, Mississippi
Benton County's housing market shows signs of low inventory and moderate price growth. Recent data indicates a median sale price of $160,000 with a limited supply of active listings, keeping the market relatively stable.
No ARED distress-ledger coverage for this county yet — the foreclosure ingest rotates the national county directory, and filings appear here once the county's posted notices are read. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
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Median prices moved sideways 0.0% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 78 days on market with 0.0 months of supply — a balanced-paced market.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 0.07% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.1% · poverty 21.5% — a stable, low-distress profile.
Deterministic aggregate of 2 researched ZIP reports — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
No researched properties in this county yet — the property base layer populates as property research runs, and each property feeds its ZIP's roll-up.
- Wall Doxey State Park4.318.1 mi
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- Chewalla Lake4.210 mi
- Holly Springs National Forest4.39.2 mi
- Kirkwood National Golf Club & Cottages4.518.2 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
Data sourced from MoverMath and Census Reporter profiles.
applies when — Default on a mortgage or deed of trust containing a power-of-sale clause
Allows for foreclosure without court intervention; requires publication of notice of the foreclosure sale in a newspaper in the county where the property is located.
Standard practice under Mississippi law for deeds of trust.
Formula: (True Value × Assessment Ratio) × Millage Rate = Taxes. Class I (single-family owner-occupied) is assessed at a 10% ratio. Homestead exemptions for homeowners over 65 or disabled provide an exemption on the first $7,500 of assessed value.
Governed by Miss. Code Ann. Sections 27-35-1 through 27-35-167; assessments updated at least every four years.
applies when — Transfer of residential real property by a seller
Requires the transferor to provide a written disclosure statement regarding the condition of the property to the transferee, subject to specific statutory exemptions.
Governed by Miss. Code Ann. Sections 89-1-501 through 89-1-523; amended by HB 1271 (2024).
applies when — Parcels located within a district created by petition of property owners
Imposes additional assessments on parcels falling under the purview of homeowners' associations or improvement districts.
Miss. Code Ann. Section 21-33-561.
Governance registry — every jurisdiction re-researches on a rolling 90-day cycle. Property reports compose these inherited burdens into a per-parcel ledger with conditional determinations. Informational only — not legal advice.