Lynn, Alabama.
Typical home $137,276 (+14.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$123 (+21%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $17,100 +14%
- $120,177$137,276 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.
- Lynn$721
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lynn, AL rose 14.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lynn, Winston County, Alabama
Lynn is a town of 610 people in Winston County. Half its households earn more than $44,010 a year and half less, against $57,256 across Winston County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Winston County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Winston County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lynn is a very small town in Winston County, Alabama, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are short and mild, with snow a rare sight, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Winston County, the largest workplaces include Winston Homebuilders and Clayton, both makers of buildings and manufactured homes, along with Winston County Schools. The county's unemployment rate has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Natural Bridge Park, a protected area, and the Buttahatchee River are both a short drive away, which makes them easy outings for a morning on the water or a walk among the rocks. For a longer day, William B. Bankhead National Forest is a longer drive away, and Lewis Smith Lake, a large reservoir, is also a longer drive.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
What people in Winston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Winston County had 8,154 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 66 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Haleyville weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Winston County
- Winston HomebuildersManufacturing building construction558
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing308
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing275
- Winston County SchoolsSchool district259FTE
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing251
- MasoniteDoor frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing251
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing220
- Haleyville City SchoolsSchool district203FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,329 people in all across the county; Lynn has none of its own. School districts come 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 moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lynn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Winston County.
Lynn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lynn$137,276
- 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 Lynn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lynn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.