Black, Alabama.
Typical home $179,507 (-0.6% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$183 (+24%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $1,131 -1%
- $180,638$179,507 since Sep 2025
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.
- Black$942
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Black, AL fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Black, Geneva County, Alabama
Black is a town of 221 people in Geneva County. Half its households earn more than $61,214 a year and half less, against $52,771 across Geneva County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Geneva County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Geneva 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Black is a very small town in Geneva County, in the southeast corner of Alabama, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Geneva County, some of the largest workplaces are Geneva County Schools, Wiregrass Medical Center and Sysco Gulf Coast. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, while the number of jobs has grown.
Things to do. The Choctawhatchee River, a longer drive away, is the best-known water nearby for time outdoors. Also a longer drive away are Ponce de Leon Springs State Park, a protected area, and the United States Army Aviation Museum. The Dothan Opera House is a theatre in the same longer-drive range for an evening out.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Geneva County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Geneva County had 5,591 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Geneva #2 weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Geneva County
- Air DistributionManufacturer aluminumsteel grill and louvers naics: 332323; 332813 sic: 3446; 3471 naicssic description: architectural metalworkanodizing ruskin reliable475
- Sysco Gulf CoastDried foods merchant wholesalers305
- Geneva County SchoolsSchool district298FTE
- Wiregrass Medical CenterGeneral hospital150FTE
- Geneva City SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores108
- Olam Peanut Shelling CompanyPeanut shelling105
- Outdoor AluminumBleacher seating manufacturing90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,425 people in all across the county; Black 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Black’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 Geneva County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Black home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Black$179,507
- 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 Black address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Black — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.