Hurtsboro, Alabama.
Typical home $95,072 (-0.7% in a year). Columbus, GA-AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$139 (+38%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $658 -1%
- $95,730$95,072 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.
- Hurtsboro$499
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hurtsboro, AL fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hurtsboro, Russell County, Alabama
Hurtsboro is a town of 349 people in Russell County. Unemployment in Russell County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Russell 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hurtsboro is a very small town in Russell County, Alabama, where most days are likely to be quiet and neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across Russell County are modest. A share of residents live below the poverty line, a larger share than in many other places.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and banking, insurance and property. Across Russell County, some of the largest workplaces are Phenix City Schools, WestRock CP, a paperboard mill, and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has risen over the past year, and there were slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Fort Bainbridge, a historic fort site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, a museum, and Chewacla State Park, a protected area with room to walk and be outdoors. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
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- 16%below the poverty line
What people in Russell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Russell County had 13,969 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eufaula Wildlife Ref weather station, 25 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Russell County
- Phenix City SchoolsSchool district693FTE
- WestRock CPPaperboard mill663
- Venza CareNursing homes407
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters399
- Russell County SchoolsSchool district356FTE
- Alatrade Foods Inc - Phenix CityPoultry processing350
- Jack Hughston Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital299FTE
- Pitts TrailersLogging trailers manufacturing209
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,127 people in all across the county; Hurtsboro 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hurtsboro’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Russell County and the Columbus, GA-AL metro.
Hurtsboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hurtsboro$95,072
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hurtsboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hurtsboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.