Lawley, Alabama.
Typical home $220,975 (+5.3% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$65 (+6%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $11,193 +5%
- $209,782$220,975 since Sep 2025
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.
- Lawley$1,160
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lawley, AL rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lawley, Perry County, Alabama
The Census does not count Lawley on its own, so the figures here are Perry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $37,654 a year and half less; 31% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Perry County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lawley is a small community in Perry County, in the Black Belt region of central Alabama. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run lower than in much of the country. A larger share of people live below the poverty line than in most parts of the nation.
Work. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county had slightly fewer jobs in the most recent year than the year before. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across most of the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The National Voting Rights Museum, one of the best known places in the area, is a longer drive away and tells the story of the civil rights movement in Alabama. The Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum is also a longer drive away, and Paul M. Grist State Park offers a protected natural setting, also a longer drive away. Winters are mild but bring freezing nights, summers are very hot, snow is rare, and rain falls heavily through the year.
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- 3,440households
- 41.1median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 1,785 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Centreville Southwest weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Alabama CatfishFish manufacturing261
- Perry County SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- Marion Military InstituteTwo-year college117
- sasser enterprisesSkilled nursing facility82
- Diversicare of MarionNursing homes59
- Breakthrough Charter SchoolSchool district37FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 402 people in all. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Perry 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 Perry County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Lawley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lawley$220,975
- 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 Lawley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lawley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.