Killen, Alabama.
Typical home $269,718 (+1.7% in a year). Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$772 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,597 +2%
- $265,120$269,718 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,816 +26%
- $213,902$269,718 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.
- Killen$1,416
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Killen, AL rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Killen, Lauderdale County, Alabama
Killen is a town of 1,034 people in Lauderdale County. Half its households earn more than $69,722 a year and half less, against $62,649 across Lauderdale County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Lauderdale County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lauderdale 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Killen is a small town in Lauderdale County, Alabama, in the northwest corner of the state. Household incomes here run higher than across the county, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural area. Winters are fairly cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. The year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Lauderdale County, some of the largest workplaces are North Alabama Medical Center, the University of North Alabama and Lauderdale County Schools. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Shoal Creek runs in or beside town, and Wheeler Lake and Wilson Lake, both reservoirs, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, a museum, and Joe Wheeler State Park, a protected area, are each a longer drive away.
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- 430households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Lauderdale County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lauderdale County had 30,996 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Muscle Shoals North weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lauderdale County
- North Alabama Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,258FTE
- University of North AlabamaUniversity or college1,145
- Lauderdale County SchoolsSchool district951FTE
- Florence City SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters392
- SouthwireCopper rolling, drawing, extruding, and alloying372
- American Wholesale Book CompanyBooks merchant wholesalers362
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters329
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,072 people in all across the county; Killen has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of KillenRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of KillenRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Killen’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 Lauderdale County and the Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL metro.
Killen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Killen$269,718
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Killen listings, and the typical home goes pending in 41 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Killen30.76%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Killen90
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Killen22
Zip codes with a Killen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Killen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.