Grimes, Alabama.
Typical home $101,987 (-2.5% in a year). Ozark, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $32 (-6%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $2,595 -2%
- $104,582$101,987 since Sep 2025
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.
- Grimes$535
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Grimes, AL fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grimes, Dale County, Alabama
Grimes is a town of 573 people in Dale County. Unemployment in Dale County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dale 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grimes is a very small Alabama town in Dale County, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here are modestly priced, and a four-year degree is held by far fewer adults than is typical across the country. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and very few work from home. Across Dale County, the largest workplaces include Dale County Schools, Dale Medical Center and Walmart. The county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and unemployment there is higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Choctawhatchee River is a short drive away, and so is the Wiregrass Museum of Art, a museum of art. The Dothan Opera House, a theatre, is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Blue Springs State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Dale County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dale County had 18,014 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer 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 93° and lows near 73°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dothan Regional Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dale County
- M1 Support ServicesSupport activities for air transportation3,839
- Michelin NA - US4 Dothan FacilityTires manufacturing550
- Dale County SchoolsSchool district345FTE
- Amentum ServicesAviation schools337
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters303
- Dale Medical CenterGeneral hospital272FTE
- Coleman American Companies271
- Ozark City SchoolsSchool district199FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,839 people in all across the county; Grimes 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Grimes’ 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 Dale County and the Ozark, AL metro.
Grimes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grimes$101,987
- 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.
Zip codes with a Grimes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grimes — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.