The story of this market
The typical home in Sharkey County, Mississippi sells for about $265,000, or $151 per square foot.
Prices are roughly flat from a year ago (0%), a market in balance. Homes take about 73 days to sell, which is slow. The biggest natural hazard here is tornado, which FEMA rates relatively high. 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 Low.
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
$1,165
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
69
Relatively Low
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $3,833,067.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
64.5%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 39 | 16 | 64.5% | 6.3% | $125,000 |
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 Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded).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.
Sharkey County, Mississippi
Sharkey County exhibits a very low-volume housing market with only 14 active listings and 8 recent sales reported as of July 2026. The area faces significant economic challenges, including a poverty rate of 30.9% and a median household income of $40,000, which limits broader real estate market activity.
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.
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Median prices moved up 31.8% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 115 days on market with 6.2 months of supply — a slower-moving market.
15% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 94% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 5.7% · poverty 30.9% — a mixed stability profile.
Deterministic aggregate of 1 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.
researched Sep 26
| 39159 | Rolling Fork | $58,000 | $48 | +31.8% | 115 | 94% | 15% | 6.2 | 140 | $564 | researched Sep 26 |
Figures are each ZIP report's own latest research — the county roll-up aggregates them sales_count-weighted (population fallback); ZIPs cycle quarterly.
The local economy is characterized by a 5.7% unemployment rate as of May 2026, with limited major industrial anchors reported.
Data retrieved from Census Reporter and Data Commons 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.