Coden, Alabama.
Typical home $150,943 (+0.9% in a year). Mobile, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$376 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,384 +1%
- $149,559$150,943 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,820 +8%
- $140,124$150,943 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.
- Coden$792
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Coden, AL rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coden, Mobile County, Alabama
The Census does not count Coden on its own, so the figures here are Mobile County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,880 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 66% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Mobile County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mobile County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coden is a small town on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, within Mobile County. Its figures are the county's, since the Census does not count the town separately. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and the town's residents come from a mix of ages and backgrounds. The weather is mild in winter, with cold snaps rather than heavy snow, and summers are hot. Rain falls often through the year, so the air is usually wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Unemployment across the county has edged up over the past year, and the number of jobs has dipped slightly. Commutes are of typical length for the area, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Bellingrath Gardens and Home, a botanical garden, is a short drive away and is one of the best-known gardens in the region. The USS Alabama, a museum built around a battleship, is a longer drive away. The Mobile River, which offers a riverside setting, is also a longer drive away.
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- 161,665households
- 38.5median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Mobile County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mobile County had 175,010 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 72°. About 69 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Coden weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mobile County
- Mobile County SchoolsSchool district5,883FTE
- Austal USAShipyard2,754
- University of South AlabamaUniversity or college2,470
- Hargrove Engineers and ConstructorsConstruction engineering services2,328
- G.A. West & CoIndustrial building construction, general contractors2,200
- USA Health University HospitalGeneral hospital2,196FTE
- Airbus Mobile Manufacturing SiteAircraft manufacturing2,145
- Mobile Infirmary Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,124FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 449 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 56,584 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Mobile County, 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 Mobile County and the Mobile, AL metro.
Coden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coden$150,943
- 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.
- Coden15
Zip codes with a Coden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.