Lapine, Alabama.
Typical home $152,299 (+8.5% in a year). Montgomery, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$383 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,973 +9%
- $140,326$152,299 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,565 +15%
- $132,734$152,299 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.
- Lapine$799
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Lapine, AL rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lapine, Crenshaw County, Alabama
The Census does not count Lapine on its own, so the figures here are Crenshaw County's. Half the county's households earn more than $48,560 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Crenshaw County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Crenshaw County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lapine is a small town in Crenshaw County, in south-central Alabama. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are older on average than across the country. Winters are milder than in much of the country, while summers are hot and wet, with a good deal of rain over the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehousing and utilities. Across the county, fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and fewer jobs were available than the year before. Few residents work from home.
Things to do. The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is a museum a longer drive away, and the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail is a protected area a longer drive away. The National Memorial to Peace and Justice, also a museum, is a longer drive away, as is the Montgomery Zoo.
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- 5,233households
- 42.2median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Crenshaw County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crenshaw County had 3,441 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Highland Home #2 weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crenshaw County
- ItacMotor vehicle body mfg688
- Crenshaw County SchoolsSchool district299FTE
- T.MarzettiBakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption197
- Dongwon Autopart Technology AlabamaJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing184
- Luverne Health and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facility164
- Pepsi Luverne Main WarehouseSoft drinks merchant wholesalers90
- Crenshaw Community HospitalGeneral hospital85FTE
- Chowel WeldpartsOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,455 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Crenshaw County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Crenshaw County and the Montgomery, AL metro.
Lapine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lapine$152,299
- 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 Lapine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lapine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.