Guin, Alabama.
Typical home $151,750 (+1.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$386 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,497 +2%
- $149,253$151,750 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,126 +23%
- $123,625$151,750 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.
- Guin$796
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Guin, AL rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Guin, Marion County, Alabama
Guin is a city of 2,195 people in Marion County. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Guin is a small city in Marion County, Alabama. Residents are a little older than in the typical American town, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes are modest, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than it is across much of the country. Winters are cool with almost no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also common. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Marion County Schools, Clayton, which makes manufactured homes, and Hamilton Homebuilder. Jobs across the county dipped last year, and the commute to work is short.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Buttahatchee River is a longer drive away and suits anyone who likes being near water. Natural Bridge Park and Dismals Canyon are both protected areas, also a longer drive away, for walking and looking at the landscape. Nita Lake, a reservoir, is another longer drive out.
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- 834households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 10,057 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer 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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Hamilton HomebuilderIndustrial building construction, general contractors380
- 3M Company348
- Marion County SchoolsSchool district338FTE
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing292
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing265
- Hamilton Home BuildersMobile home manufacturing250
- Deer Valley Home BuildersHouses, prefabricated mobile homes, manufacturing215
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters211
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,944 people in all across the county; Guin has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Guin’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 Marion County.
Guin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Guin$151,750
- 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.
- Guin14
Zip codes with a Guin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Guin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.