Kinsey, Alabama.
Typical home $143,711 (+3.5% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$415 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,809 +3%
- $138,902$143,711 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,219 +32%
- $108,492$143,711 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.
- Kinsey$754
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Kinsey, AL rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kinsey, Houston County, Alabama
Kinsey is a city of 2,203 people in Houston County. Half its households earn more than $55,500 a year and half less, against $58,626 across Houston County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Houston County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kinsey is a small city in Houston County, Alabama, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Across Houston County, some of the largest workplaces are Southeast Health Medical Center, Wayne Sanderson Farms and Flowers Hospital. Few adults here have a four-year degree, and a typical commute is a moderate one, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Dothan Opera House, a theatre, and the Wiregrass Museum of Art, a museum. Rip Hewes Stadium, also a short drive away, is a stadium for local games. For a day out on the water, the Choctawhatchee River is a longer drive away.
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- 872households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 51,288 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Headland weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Southeast Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,438FTE
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing1,126
- Flowers HospitalGeneral hospital1,030FTE
- Dothan City SchoolsSchool district887FTE
- Houston County SchoolsSchool district720FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- George C Wallace Community College-DothanTwo-year college384
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,482 people in all across the county; Kinsey has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kinsey’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Houston County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Kinsey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kinsey$143,711
- 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 Kinsey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kinsey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.