Gordon, Alabama.
Typical home $142,547 (+6.5% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$413 (+123%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $8,648 +6%
- $133,899$142,547 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,509 +32%
- $108,037$142,547 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.
- Gordon$748
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Gordon, AL rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gordon, Houston County, Alabama
Gordon is a town of 294 people in Houston County. Unemployment in Houston County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Houston County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gordon is a very small town in Houston County, in the southeast corner of Alabama. Homes here cost less than the typical home across the country, and few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and chilly nights, while summers run hot, and rain and the occasional melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing also employing many people. Across Houston County, some of the biggest employers are Southeast Health Medical Center, Wayne Sanderson Farms and Dothan City Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added a small number of jobs, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. George W. Andrews Lake, a reservoir, and Chattahoochee State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away and suit a day by the water or on the trails. For a longer outing, Kolomoki Mounds State Park, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away. So is the Dothan Opera House, a theatre.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Houston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 51,288 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Donalsonville weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Southeast Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,438FTE
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing1,126
- Flowers HospitalGeneral hospital1,030FTE
- Dothan City SchoolsSchool district887FTE
- Houston County SchoolsSchool district720FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- George C Wallace Community College-DothanTwo-year college384
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,482 people in all across the county; Gordon 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 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gordon’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 Houston County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Gordon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gordon$142,547
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Gordon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gordon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.