Henagar, Alabama.
Typical home $196,314 (+2.3% in a year). Fort Payne, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$540 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,347 +2%
- $191,968$196,314 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,127 +13%
- $173,187$196,314 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.
- Henagar$1,030
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Henagar, AL rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Henagar, DeKalb County, Alabama
Henagar is a city of 2,292 people in DeKalb County. Unemployment in DeKalb County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in DeKalb County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Henagar is a small city in DeKalb County, in the hills of northeast Alabama. Most people here do not hold a four-year degree, and a good number live on tight budgets, with more households below the poverty line than is typical across the country. Winters are cold but not severe, with freezing nights in January, and summers are hot. Rain and melted snow fall generously through the year, more than in many parts of the country.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Across DeKalb County, the largest workplaces include Terex, which makes garbage truck bodies, DeKalb County Schools, and Koch Foods, a poultry processor. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, though the county has added jobs, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. DeSoto Falls, a waterfall, is a short drive away and is the nearest of the area's natural sights. A longer drive brings you to Little River Canyon National Preserve, a protected area of canyon and river country. Also a longer drive away is the Fort Payne Opera House, a theatre for an evening out.
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- 823households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 11%work from home
What people in DeKalb County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeKalb County had 23,861 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Valley Head Ssw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in DeKalb County
- TerexGarbage truck bodies manufacturing1,239
- DeKalb County SchoolsSchool district999FTE
- Koch FoodsChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked693
- Moriroku Technology North America Inc. - RainsvilleMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing571
- Renfro Brands LLC- Ft. Payne PlantAthletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing456
- PlayCore Southern Fulfillment CenterGymnasium and playground equipment, manufacturing450
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Fort Payne City SchoolsSchool district363FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 53 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,590 people in all across the county; Henagar has one 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Henagar’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 DeKalb County and the Fort Payne, AL metro.
Henagar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Henagar$196,314
- 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.
- Henagar15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Henagar5
Zip codes with a Henagar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Henagar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.