Lillian, Alabama.
Typical home $305,268 (-0.1% in a year). Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$932 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $243 -0%
- $305,511$305,268 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,487 +25%
- $243,781$305,268 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.
- Lillian$1,602
- 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 Lillian, AL fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lillian, Baldwin County, Alabama
Lillian, in Baldwin County, had 1,330 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Baldwin County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Baldwin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lillian is a small community in Baldwin County, Alabama, on the Gulf Coast side of the state. Homes here are priced above what many people would expect for a place this size, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and wet, with a good deal of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing also common. A small number work from home. Across Baldwin County, some of the largest workplaces are Baldwin County Schools, Thomas Hospital and Columbia Southern University. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Perdido River is a short drive away for time on the water, and Ono Island, also a short drive off, has a beach. The National Naval Aviation Museum is a short drive away as well, and Fort Pickens, one of the old coastal forts along this shore, is another short trip. Anyone willing to go a little farther can visit the USS Massachusetts archaeological site, a longer drive away.
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- 1%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Baldwin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baldwin County had 87,943 jobs in 2025, 3.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 74°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pensacola Forest Sherman Nas weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baldwin County
- Baldwin County SchoolsSchool district3,835FTE
- Thomas HospitalGeneral hospital1,015FTE
- Columbia Southern UniversityUniversity or college943
- Coastal Alabama Community CollegeTwo-year college736
- South Baldwin Regional Medical CenteGeneral hospital708FTE
- Brett/Robinson GulfResidential property managing634
- Legacy HospiceHome health care agencies497
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters405
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 153 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,243 people in all across the county; Lillian has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lillian’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 Baldwin County and the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro.
Lillian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lillian$305,268
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lillian listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Lillian30.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lillian62
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lillian16
Zip codes with a Lillian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lillian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.