Avon, Alabama.
Typical home $193,565 (+4.1% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$554 (+120%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $7,701 +4%
- $185,865$193,565 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,009 +29%
- $150,556$193,565 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.
- Avon$1,016
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Avon, AL rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avon, Houston County, Alabama
Avon is a town of 465 people in Houston County. Half its households earn more than $39,375 a year and half less, against $58,626 across Houston County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Houston County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Houston 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avon is a very small town in Houston County, with far fewer residents than most towns in the state. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical. A typical home costs a good deal less than in many parts of the country. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow. Summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing. Across Houston County, some of the largest workplaces are Southeast Health Medical Center, Flowers Hospital and Dothan City Schools. Commutes are fairly short, and almost nobody works from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the county's job market has grown only slightly over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Dothan Opera House is a theatre, and the Wiregrass Museum of Art is a museum. Rip Hewes Stadium, also a short drive away, is a stadium. For time outdoors, Florida Caverns State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 181households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Houston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 51,288 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Headland weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Southeast Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,438FTE
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing1,126
- Flowers HospitalGeneral hospital1,030FTE
- Dothan City SchoolsSchool district887FTE
- Houston County SchoolsSchool district720FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- George C Wallace Community College-DothanTwo-year college384
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,482 people in all across the county; Avon has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Avon’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 Houston County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Avon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avon$193,565
- 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.
Zip codes with a Avon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.