Chancellor, Alabama.
Typical home $186,722 (-2.0% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$448 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,729 -2%
- $190,451$186,722 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,488 +10%
- $170,233$186,722 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.
- Chancellor$980
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Chancellor, AL fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chancellor, Geneva County, Alabama
The Census does not count Chancellor on its own, so the figures here are Geneva County's. Half the county's households earn more than $52,771 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chancellor is a small town in Geneva County in southeastern Alabama. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild 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, in shops, in manufacturing, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Jobs across Geneva County grew over the last year, though unemployment is higher than it was a year before. Most people drive a fair distance to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Within a longer drive, the Choctawhatchee River offers a river setting, and the United States Army Aviation Museum is a museum devoted to aviation. Frank Jackson State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 10,647households
- 43.7median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
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 61° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Enterprise West 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. 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Geneva County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Chancellor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chancellor$186,722
- 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.
- Chancellor11
Zip codes with a Chancellor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chancellor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.