Madrid, Alabama.
Typical home $152,686 (+6.7% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$417 (+108%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $9,610 +7%
- $143,076$152,686 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,467 +25%
- $122,219$152,686 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.
- Madrid$801
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Madrid, AL rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Madrid, Houston County, Alabama
Madrid is a town of 265 people in Houston County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Houston County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Houston 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Madrid is a very small town in Houston County, in the southeast corner of Alabama. Nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than across the county. Typical home values are modest, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Houston County, the largest workplaces include Southeast Health Medical Center, Wayne Sanderson Farms and Flowers Hospital. Commutes are fairly long, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Falling Waters State Park and Florida Caverns State Park are protected areas, and the Choctawhatchee River is the best known of the nearby waterways. Each is a longer drive away. Winters are mild and cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Houston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 51,288 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bonifay Tri County Airport weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Southeast Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,438FTE
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing1,126
- Flowers HospitalGeneral hospital1,030FTE
- Dothan City SchoolsSchool district887FTE
- Houston County SchoolsSchool district720FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- George C Wallace Community College-DothanTwo-year college384
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,482 people in all across the county; Madrid has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Madrid’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 Houston County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Madrid home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Madrid$152,686
- 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 Madrid address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Madrid — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.