Dodge City, Alabama.
Typical home $221,097 (+2.1% in a year). Cullman, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$358 (+45%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $4,546 +2%
- $216,551$221,097 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.
- Dodge City$1,160
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dodge City, AL rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dodge City, Cullman County, Alabama
Dodge City is a town of 548 people in Cullman County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Cullman County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cullman County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dodge City is a very small town in Cullman County, Alabama, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home, far more than across the county. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool rather than harsh, with January the coldest month and nights that dip to around freezing, while summers turn hot by July. Snow is rare, and the year is wet, with plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Cullman County, some of the largest workplaces are R.E. Garrison Trucking, Cullman Regional and Cullman County Schools. The commute is a fairly long one for many people, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. The Cullman County Museum is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Rickwood Caverns State Park and William B. Bankhead National Forest are protected areas a longer drive away, and Lewis Smith Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Cullman County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cullman County had 31,028 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hanceville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cullman County
- R.E. Garrison TruckingMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload1,396
- Cullman RegionalGeneral hospital1,104FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage954
- Cullman County SchoolsSchool district941FTE
- George C Wallace State Community College-HancevilleTwo-year college539
- REHAU AutomotivePlastics automotive440
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters433
- Rusken PackagingBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard430
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 61 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,637 people in all across the county; Dodge City 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland 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 in Dodge City’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Cullman County and the Cullman, AL metro.
Dodge City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dodge City$221,097
- 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 Dodge City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dodge City — 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.