Kennedy, Alabama.
Typical home $131,701 (-3.7% in a year). Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$249 (+56%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,072 -4%
- $136,773$131,701 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,652 -10%
- $146,353$131,701 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.
- Kennedy$691
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kennedy, AL fell 3.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kennedy, Lamar County, Alabama
Kennedy is a town of 435 people in Lamar County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Lamar County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lamar 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kennedy is a very small town in Lamar County, Alabama, where most homes are lived in by their owners and homes are modest in price. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than across the country as a whole, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with others in a range of other services. Across Lamar County, some of the largest workplaces are Lamar County Schools, Weyerhaeuser and Trachte. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Lake Lurleen State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Tuscaloosa, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away. Plymouth, an archaeological site, lies a longer drive away as well.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
What people in Lamar County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lamar County had 3,345 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayette weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lamar County
- Bolzoni AuramoMachine shops366
- Marathon Equipment - VernonTrash and garbage compactors, commercial-type, manufacturing280
- Lamar County SchoolsSchool district216FTE
- WeyerhaeuserLumber177
- Grupo PromaxZinc dust reclaiming149
- TrachteTruck trailer manufacturing83
- Koppers KennedyTreating wood products with creosote or other preservatives35
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,138 people in all across the county; Kennedy has none 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kennedy’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 Lamar County and the Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
Kennedy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kennedy$131,701
- 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 Kennedy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kennedy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.