Renting in McCool: a two-bedroom costs about $990
McCool is too small for a cost of living grade (TownRatings grades places of 1,000 or more).
What McCool’s housing numbers say
Prices are 9% below their 2025 peak
The typical McCool home peaked at $155K in March 2025 and is worth about $141K now. Across Mississippi, values are at or near their high. Over five years, McCool is still up 1.9%. Price trend ↓
Owning can cost less than renting
With 20% down at the calculator’s rate, the typical McCool home runs about $820 a month with tax and insurance. A two-bedroom rents for about $990. Can I afford it? ↓
Written from the data on this page. Home values are the Zillow Home Value Index, through September 2026; incomes, rents paid, taxes and ownership come from the Census American Community Survey, which has wide margins in a place this size.
Why McCool isn’t graded
The grade needs at least two of four Census figures: home value, rent, property tax and the share of households paying 30% or more for housing. Here none is available.
A two-bedroom rents for about $990
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Attala County, MS): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
McCool and its neighbors
One source per column.
Cost next door · one source per column
| Town | Cost | Typical home Zillow, September 2026 | Median value Census 2020–24 | Tax rate bill ÷ value | 2-bed rent HUD 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCool | – | $141K | — | — | $990 |
“—” under Cost: not graded (too little Census data, or under 1,000 residents).
Questions about the cost of living in McCool
How much is rent in McCool?
HUD puts a two-bedroom at about $990 a month with utilities, the going rate for someone moving in.
Why doesn’t McCool have a cost of living grade?
McCool is too small for a cost of living grade (TownRatings grades places of 1,000 or more).
Neighbors talk housing
What McCool buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, September 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer. Regional price levels: BEA; electricity: EIA. How TownRatings grades cost of living.