Eldridge, Alabama.
Typical home $139,681 (-0.1% in a year). Jasper, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$351 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $103 -0%
- $139,784$139,681 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,224 +1%
- $138,457$139,681 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.
- Eldridge$733
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Eldridge, AL fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eldridge, Fayette County, Alabama
Eldridge is a town of 136 people in Fayette County. Half its households earn more than $98,542 a year and half less, against $49,488 across Fayette County. Unemployment in Fayette County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eldridge is a very small town in Fayette County, Alabama, with far fewer residents than most places. Household incomes in the town run well above the county's, and homes here are valued modestly. Winters are mild and short, and summers are hot and wet, with rain falling through much of the year and snow a rare sight.
Work. People in Eldridge work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Fayette County, some of the biggest workplaces are Fayette County Schools, Northwest Medical Center and Ox Bodies, which assembles truck bodies on purchased chassis. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw, and the best known spot is William B. Bankhead National Forest, a protected area a longer drive away. Also a longer drive away are Lewis Smith Lake, a large reservoir, and Dismals Canyon, another protected area.
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What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 3,946 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 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 64 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winfield Southwest weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Continental Global Material Handling LLC WinfieldMine conveyors manufacturing256
- Fayette County SchoolsSchool district255FTE
- Ox BodiesTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis254
- Northwest Medical CenterGeneral hospital183FTE
- Fayette Medical CenterGeneral hospital171FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters169
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing140
- Dal Tile FayetteBricks, clay, manufacturing127
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,038 people in all across the county; Eldridge 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Eldridge’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 Fayette County and the Jasper, AL metro.
Eldridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eldridge$139,681
- 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.
- Eldridge5
Zip codes with a Eldridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eldridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.