Clayhatchee, Alabama.
Typical home $141,470 (+5.0% in a year). Ozark, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$41 (+6%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $6,773 +5%
- $134,697$141,470 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.
- Clayhatchee$743
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Clayhatchee, AL rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clayhatchee, Dale County, Alabama
Clayhatchee is a town of 466 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clayhatchee is a very small town in Dale County, Alabama, where the typical resident is older than in most American communities. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot. Rain is plentiful through the year. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than it is nationally.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Dale County, some of the largest workplaces are Dale County Schools, Dale Medical Center and Michelin's tire manufacturing facility near Dothan. The drive to work is longer than many people face, and the county's jobless rate has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. The Little Choctawhatchee River is a short drive away, as is the United States Army Aviation Museum. A longer drive brings you to the Choctawhatchee River, and to the Dothan Opera House, a theatre.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
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 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, 11 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; Clayhatchee 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Clayhatchee’s census tracts, 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 Dale County and the Ozark, AL metro.
Clayhatchee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clayhatchee$141,470
- 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 Clayhatchee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clayhatchee — 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.