Dora, Alabama.
Typical home $181,809 (+2.0% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$436 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,531 +2%
- $178,278$181,809 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,565 -4%
- $190,374$181,809 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.
- Dora$954
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Dora, AL rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dora, Jefferson County, Alabama
Dora is a city of 2,297 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $61,892 a year and half less, against $66,388 across Jefferson County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dora is a small city in Jefferson County, Alabama, with a population that is small enough for neighbors to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than is typical across the country. Homes are priced modestly, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then transport, warehouses and utilities, and manufacturing. Across Jefferson County, some of the biggest employers are University of Alabama Hospital, Children's Hospital of Alabama and Jefferson County Schools. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Sipsey Fork, a river, is a short drive away, and Lewis Smith Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive. The Birmingham Zoo and the Birmingham Museum of Art are also a longer drive away. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the year is wet.
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- 861households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 368,875 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jasper weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- University of Alabama HospitalGeneral hospital11,411FTE
- UA Health Services FoundationCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient5,637
- THE Children's Hospital of AlabamaChildren's hospital4,552FTE
- Brasfield & Gorrie Corporate OfficeCommercial building construction4,447
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,660
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district3,404FTE
- Southern Foodservice ManagementCafeteria food services contractors2,670
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,665
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 623 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 101,368 people in all across the county; Dora 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 federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dora’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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Dora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dora$181,809
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Dora listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Dora21.90%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dora45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dora9
Zip codes with a Dora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.