Anderson, Alabama.
Typical home $224,051 (+5.5% in a year). Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$656 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,663 +5%
- $212,388$224,051 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,600 +18%
- $189,452$224,051 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.
- Anderson$1,176
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Anderson, AL rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Anderson, Lauderdale County, Alabama
Anderson is a town of 254 people in Lauderdale County. Unemployment in Lauderdale County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lauderdale County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Anderson is a very small town in Lauderdale County, in the northwest corner of Alabama. Few people live here, and very few of them fall below the poverty line. Homes are typically valued somewhat above what a county median income might comfortably stretch to, in a place where neighbors are likely to know one another.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Lauderdale County, North Alabama Medical Center, the University of North Alabama and Lauderdale County Schools are among the largest workplaces. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Wheeler Lake, a reservoir, and Joe Wheeler State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away, as is Fort Hampton. A longer drive brings you to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, a museum of the region's recording history. Winters are cool and summers hot, with plenty of rain through the year, so the water and parkland suit the warmer months best.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Lauderdale County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lauderdale County had 30,996 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lexington weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lauderdale County
- North Alabama Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,258FTE
- University of North AlabamaUniversity or college1,145
- Lauderdale County SchoolsSchool district951FTE
- Florence City SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters392
- SouthwireCopper rolling, drawing, extruding, and alloying372
- American Wholesale Book CompanyBooks merchant wholesalers362
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters329
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,072 people in all across the county; Anderson has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Anderson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Lauderdale County and the Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL metro.
Anderson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Anderson$224,051
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Anderson10
Zip codes with a Anderson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Anderson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.