Dutton, Alabama.
Typical home $189,098 (-1.6% in a year). Scottsboro, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$537 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,043 -2%
- $192,141$189,098 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,035 +25%
- $151,063$189,098 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.
- Dutton$993
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Dutton, AL fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dutton, Jackson County, Alabama
Dutton is a town of 330 people in Jackson County. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dutton is a very small town in Jackson County, in the northeast corner of Alabama. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is low. Winters are cool and often chilly at night, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Jackson County, the largest workplaces include Jackson County Schools, Heat Transfer Products Group, and Highlands Medical Center. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there is a little higher than it was a year ago. The typical commute is a fairly short drive.
Things to do. The area around Dutton is good country for people who like caves, canyons and waterfalls, though all of it is a longer drive away. Russell Cave National Monument is a protected archaeological site, and Cathedral Caverns State Park is a protected area built around a large cave. DeSoto Falls is a waterfall, and Little River Canyon National Preserve is a protected area with a deep gorge.
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- 167households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 15,108 jobs in 2025, 2.2% 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 68°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Scottsboro Northeast weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Jackson County SchoolsSchool district699FTE
- Heat Transfer Products GroupAir-conditioning equipment manufacturing452
- WestRock CPPapermill420
- Highlands Medical CenterGeneral hospital403FTE
- Maples Industries Plant 1Rugs and carpets made from textile materials350
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Sanoh AmericaBrake hose assemblies manufacturing286
- Scottsboro City SchoolsSchool district265FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,434 people in all across the county; Dutton 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dutton’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 Jackson County and the Scottsboro, AL metro.
Dutton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dutton$189,098
- 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.
- Dutton11
Zip codes with a Dutton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dutton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.