Ider, Alabama.
Typical home $203,528 (+6.7% in a year). Fort Payne, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$579 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,850 +7%
- $190,678$203,528 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,696 +16%
- $175,832$203,528 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.
- Ider$1,068
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Ider, AL rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ider, DeKalb County, Alabama
Ider is a town of 735 people in DeKalb County. Half its households earn more than $54,444 a year and half less, against $51,204 across DeKalb County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in DeKalb County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ider is a small town on Sand Mountain in DeKalb County, with fewer residents than most towns that carry a post office and a name. Household incomes run somewhat above the county's, though a noticeable part of the town still lives below the poverty line, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here are valued at a modest level, and winters are cool and short, with only a little snow, while summers are warm and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across DeKalb County, some of the largest workplaces are Terex, DeKalb County Schools and Koch Foods. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs since the year before, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Russell Cave National Monument, a protected area a longer drive away that holds a long record of human shelter. DeSoto Falls, a waterfall, and Little River Canyon National Preserve, a protected area, are also a longer drive away and suit a day out on the trails. Nickajack Lake, a reservoir, is another longer drive for time on the water.
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- 274households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeKalb County had 23,861 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 5 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Valley Head weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in DeKalb County
- TerexGarbage truck bodies manufacturing1,239
- DeKalb County SchoolsSchool district999FTE
- Koch FoodsChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked693
- Moriroku Technology North America Inc. - RainsvilleMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing571
- Renfro Brands LLC- Ft. Payne PlantAthletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing456
- PlayCore Southern Fulfillment CenterGymnasium and playground equipment, manufacturing450
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Fort Payne City SchoolsSchool district363FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 53 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,590 people in all across the county; Ider 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ider’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 DeKalb County and the Fort Payne, AL metro.
Ider home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ider$203,528
- 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.
- Ider5
Zip codes with a Ider address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ider — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.