Marion Junction, Alabama.
Typical home $139,338 (+3.8% in a year). Selma, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$270 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,064 +4%
- $134,274$139,338 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,456 -6%
- $147,795$139,338 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.
- Marion Junction$731
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Marion Junction, AL rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marion Junction, Dallas County, Alabama
The Census does not count Marion Junction on its own, so the figures here are Dallas County's. Half the county's households earn more than $35,627 a year and half less; 31% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 64% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Dallas County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dallas County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marion Junction sits in Dallas County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain falling across the year. These figures are for the county as a whole, so they describe the wider area the town belongs to.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Jobs in the county rose slightly over the past year, while unemployment was a little higher than the year before. Few people work from home, so the daily trip to a job is the usual routine, and the typical commute is about average in length.
Things to do. The National Voting Rights Museum and the Safe House Black History Museum are both museums a longer drive away, and each is worth a visit for those interested in local history. Paul M. Grist State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away, suited to a day outdoors. The Cahaba archaeological site, a longer drive away, is another option for anyone curious about the area's past.
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- 15,947households
- 41.2median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Dallas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 11,478 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Selma Wnw weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dallas County
- North America Packaging SolutionsMill829
- South Dade Air Conditioning and RefrigerationFacilities support services357
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters349
- Vaughan Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital324FTE
- Selma City SchoolsSchool district294FTE
- Dallas County SchoolsSchool district291FTE
- Seoyon E HWA Interior Systems AlabamaMotor vehicle seating and interior trim manufacturing287
- George C Wallace State Community College-SelmaTwo-year college236
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,591 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dallas County, 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 Dallas County and the Selma, AL metro.
Marion Junction home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marion Junction$139,338
- 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 Marion Junction address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marion Junction — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.