Home values, rents and more in the Starkville metro area
September 2026 figures from Zillow and the U.S. Census Bureau · updated 2026-11-07
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How the Starkville metro compares
The typical home in the Starkville metro area is worth about $260,000, according to the Zillow Home Value Index for September 2026. Home values in the Starkville metro are 34% above the typical value in Mississippi ($195,000) and 29% below the U.S. typical value ($366,000).
Over the past year, home values in the Starkville metro rose 4.8%, compared with +2.2% in Mississippi and +1.2% nationally.
Typical rent is $1,408 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index), 5% below Mississippi ($1,475) and 27% below the U.S. ($1,932). Rents rose 3.6% over the past year.
The median household income is $48,750, against $56,447 in Mississippi and $80,734 in the U.S. (Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–24).
About 62,063 people live in the Starkville metro (Census Bureau estimate for July 2025).
The Starkville metro has the 449th-highest typical home value of the 923 metro areas in the United States and the 2nd-highest of 20 in Mississippi with Zillow figures.
Part of: Mississippi
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Sources
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, September 2026. Rents: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), seasonally adjusted. Population: Census population estimates (July 2025) for states, metros and counties; ACS 2020–24 for cities and ZIP codes. Income: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–24 5-year estimates. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files. Compiled by Home Economics.
"Typical" is Zillow's middle-tier value (homes between the 35th and 65th percentiles), not a median sale price. Changes are over the 12 months to September 2026.