Malvern, Alabama.
Typical home $194,065 (+0.3% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$482 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $564 +0%
- $193,501$194,065 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,193 +13%
- $171,872$194,065 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.
- Malvern$1,019
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Malvern, AL rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Malvern, Geneva County, Alabama
Malvern is a town of 1,536 people in Geneva County. Unemployment in Geneva County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Geneva 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Malvern is a small town in Geneva County, Alabama, with a population younger than many rural towns and typical homes that cost less than in much of the country. Winters are mild, with chilly lows but days that stay fairly comfortable, and summers are hot. Rain falls through the year, and snow adds only a little to it.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Geneva County, the largest workplaces include Geneva County Schools, Wiregrass Medical Center and Walmart. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home, so most people travel to a job for a fairly long commute.
Things to do. A short drive away is Dothan, where the Wiregrass Museum of Art and the Dothan Opera House, a theatre, offer an afternoon indoors. A longer drive brings you to the Choctawhatchee River, a good place to be near water, and to the United States Army Aviation Museum, which suits anyone interested in military flight.
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- 691households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Geneva County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Geneva County had 5,591 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dothan Regional Airport weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Geneva County
- Air DistributionManufacturer aluminumsteel grill and louvers naics: 332323; 332813 sic: 3446; 3471 naicssic description: architectural metalworkanodizing ruskin reliable475
- Sysco Gulf CoastDried foods merchant wholesalers305
- Geneva County SchoolsSchool district298FTE
- Wiregrass Medical CenterGeneral hospital150FTE
- Geneva City SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores108
- Olam Peanut Shelling CompanyPeanut shelling105
- Outdoor AluminumBleacher seating manufacturing90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,425 people in all across the county; Malvern has none of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Malvern’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Geneva County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Malvern home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Malvern$194,065
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Malvern8
Zip codes with a Malvern address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Malvern — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.