Abbeville, Alabama.
Typical home $155,542 (+1.5% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$331 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,303 +2%
- $153,239$155,542 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,567 +9%
- $142,975$155,542 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Abbeville$816
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Abbeville, AL rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Abbeville, Henry County, Alabama
Abbeville is a city of 2,358 people in Henry County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Henry County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 4.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Abbeville is a small city and the seat of Henry County, in the southeast corner of Alabama. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes in the county are on the lower side, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and nearly everyone travels to work rather than working from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Abbeville are Henry County Schools, Great Southern Wood - Greenbush Wood Products and American Machine & Mfg. Unemployment across Henry County is low, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before, and the typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. The Choctawhatchee River and Walter F. George Lake are both a longer drive away, for time on the water. George T. Bagby State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away, as is Kolomoki Mounds State Park, an archaeological site. Winters are cool but mild, while summers run hot, so outings are comfortable for much of the year.
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- 1,015households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henry County had 3,747 jobs in 2025, 4.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Gaines weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Abbeville
- Henry County SchoolsSchool district286FTE
- Great Southern Wood - Greenbush Wood ProductsWood preservation43
- Great Southern Wood PreservingSpecialized freight trucking, local35
- American Machine & MfgMachine shops28
- #640 Food GiantSupermarkets and other grocery stores24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 130 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Abbeville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Henry County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Abbeville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Abbeville$155,542
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Abbeville listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Abbeville15.40%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Abbeville52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Abbeville7
Zip codes with a Abbeville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Abbeville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.