Langston, Alabama.
Typical home $290,440 (+8.2% in a year). Albertville, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$865 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,902 +8%
- $268,538$290,440 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,443 +27%
- $228,996$290,440 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.
- Langston$1,524
- 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 Langston, AL rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Langston, Marshall County, Alabama
Langston is a town of 265 people in Marshall County. Half its households earn more than $53,929 a year and half less, against $62,571 across Marshall County. Unemployment in Marshall County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marshall 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Langston is a very small town in Marshall County, Alabama, and South Sauty Creek runs in or beside town. Household incomes here run below the county's, while the typical home is worth a good deal in the local market. Winters are cool and seldom snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common, and a few work from home. Across Marshall County, some of the largest workplaces are Marshall Medical Centers South, a general hospital, and poultry processors such as Pilgrim's Guntersville Plant and Tyson Chicken. The county's job count has edged up over the past year, and unemployment is low and close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. South Sauty Creek is a river in or beside town. A short drive away are Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge and Cathedral Caverns State Park, both protected areas. Buck's Pocket State Park, another protected area, is also a short drive away.
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- 7%work from home
What people in Marshall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 41,043 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Scottsboro weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- Farm Fresh FoodsCutting of purchased carcasses merchant wholesalers1,625
- Pilgrim's Guntersville PlantPoultry processing1,619
- Marshall Medical Centers SouthGeneral hospital1,361FTE
- Tyson ChickenPoultry processing953
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing910
- Alatrade Foods Inc - AlbertvillePoultry processing825
- Marshall County SchoolsSchool district644FTE
- Alatrade Foods Inc - BoazPoultry processing570
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 89 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,789 people in all across the county; Langston has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Langston’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 Marshall County and the Albertville, AL metro.
Langston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Langston$290,440
- 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.
- Langston11
Zip codes with a Langston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Langston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.