Fayette, Alabama.
Typical home $136,810 (+0.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$391 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $529 +0%
- $136,281$136,810 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,509 +13%
- $121,301$136,810 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.
- Fayette$718
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Fayette, AL rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fayette, Fayette County, Alabama
Fayette is a city of 4,285 people in Fayette County. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fayette is a small city in Alabama and the seat of Fayette County. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes across the county are on the lower side, and relatively few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and rainy through much of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Fayette are Fayette County Schools, Ox Bodies, which assembles truck bodies, and Fayette Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly. Many people have a commute of a fairly short drive, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Most of the nearby outdoor places are a longer drive away. Lake Lurleen State Park is a protected area built around a lake, good for a day by the water. Lake Tuscaloosa is a large reservoir, also a longer drive from town.
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- 1,580households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
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 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayette weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette
- Fayette County SchoolsSchool district255FTE
- Ox BodiesTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis254
- Fayette Medical CenterGeneral hospital171FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters169
- O'Neal Manufacturing ServicesFabricated plate work manufacturing52
- American Medical Response20
- FayetteMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 515 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fayette’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 Fayette County.
Fayette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fayette$136,810
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Fayette 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.
- Fayette19.09%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fayette44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fayette11
Zip codes with a Fayette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fayette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.