Florala, Alabama.
Typical home $130,541 (-2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$338 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,731 -3%
- $134,272$130,541 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,682 +6%
- $122,859$130,541 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.
- Florala$685
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 57 years.
Typical home values in Florala, AL fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Florala, Covington County, Alabama
Florala is a town of 1,923 people in Covington County. Unemployment in Covington County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Covington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Florala is a small town in Covington County, Alabama, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in January still staying above freezing in the daytime, and summers turn hot by July. Rain falls through the year, a good deal more than in many parts of the country. Homes here cost less than the typical home across the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Covington County, some of the largest workplaces are Shaw Industries Group, Covington County Schools and Andalusia Regional Hospital. Commutes run long, longer than in most of the country, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs there has grown.
Things to do. Florala City Park is a garden in or beside town and the easiest place to spend an afternoon outdoors. A longer drive away, Conecuh National Forest is a large protected area for walking and time among the trees. Also a longer drive off, Lake DeFuniak offers a lake to sit beside, and the Sepulga River is there for those who like to be near moving water.
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- 774households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Covington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Covington County had 12,461 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Florala Municipal Airport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Covington County
- Shaw Industries GroupPolyester fibers and filaments manufacturing988
- PowerSouth Energy CooperativeElectric power transmission systems383
- Covington County SchoolsSchool district353FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters353
- Kindred HealthcareGeneral medical and surgical hospitals276
- Andalusia Regional HospitalGeneral hospital258FTE
- Three Notch GroupCivil engineering services210
- Lurleen B Wallace Community CollegeTwo-year college190
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,617 people in all across the county; Florala has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Florala’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 Covington County.
Florala home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Florala$130,541
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Florala 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.
- Florala12.79%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Florala26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Florala address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Florala — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.