Heflin, Alabama.
Typical home $230,153 (+5.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$668 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,416 +5%
- $218,736$230,153 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,950 +20%
- $192,202$230,153 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.
- Heflin$1,208
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Heflin, AL rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama
Heflin is a city of 3,431 people in Cleburne County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Cleburne County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 4.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Heflin is a small city and the seat of Cleburne County, in the east of Alabama. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and other services also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Heflin are Southwire, which rolls and draws aluminum, Cleburne County Schools, and Webb Concrete & Building Materials. Commutes are fairly long, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Much of the area's appeal is outdoors. Talladega National Forest and Cheaha State Park are protected areas for hiking and time among the hills, each a longer drive away. Those who like racing history can visit the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, a museum that is also a longer drive from town.
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- 1,330households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cleburne County had 2,830 jobs in 2025, 4.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Heflin weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Heflin
- SouthwireOther aluminum rolling, drawing, and extruding346
- Cleburne County SchoolsSchool district269FTE
- Webb Concrete & Building MaterialsReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing135
- Cleburne County Nursing HomeNursing homes110
- Rusken Packaging HeflinBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard67
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture22
- HeflinMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 679 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Heflin’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 Cleburne County.
Heflin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Heflin$230,153
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Heflin 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.
- Heflin34.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Heflin29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Heflin8
Zip codes with a Heflin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Heflin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.