Ariton, Alabama.
Typical home $159,743 (-1.2% in a year). Ozark, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$348 (+71%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,895 -1%
- $161,638$159,743 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,481 +1%
- $158,262$159,743 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.
- Ariton$838
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ariton, AL fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ariton, Dale County, Alabama
Ariton is a town of 662 people in Dale County. Unemployment in Dale County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dale County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ariton is a very small town in Dale County, home to few enough people that neighbors tend to know one another. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is common across the country, and the typical home is modestly priced. Winters are mild and brief, while summers run hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, factories, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Dale County, some of the largest workplaces are Dale County Schools, Dale Medical Center and Walmart. Few people here work from home, and the county has recently seen slightly fewer jobs and somewhat higher unemployment than a year earlier.
Things to do. The Pea River runs in or beside town, a quiet spot for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Blue Springs State Park, a protected area, and to the United States Army Aviation Museum. The Troy University Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Dale County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dale County had 18,014 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Troy weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dale County
- M1 Support ServicesSupport activities for air transportation3,839
- Michelin NA - US4 Dothan FacilityTires manufacturing550
- Dale County SchoolsSchool district345FTE
- Amentum ServicesAviation schools337
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters303
- Dale Medical CenterGeneral hospital272FTE
- Coleman American Companies271
- Ozark City SchoolsSchool district199FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,839 people in all across the county; Ariton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ariton’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 Dale County and the Ozark, AL metro.
Ariton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ariton$159,743
- 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.
- Ariton9
Zip codes with a Ariton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ariton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.