McKenzie, Alabama.
Typical home $116,659 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$278 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,077 +7%
- $108,582$116,659 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,282 +10%
- $106,376$116,659 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.
- McKenzie$612
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in McKenzie, AL rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McKenzie, Conecuh County, Alabama
McKenzie is a town of 507 people in Conecuh County. Unemployment in Conecuh County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Conecuh County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McKenzie is a very small town in Conecuh County, Alabama, where most neighbors are likely to know one another. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole, and homes cost less than in much of the nation. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and rainy through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Conecuh County, some of the largest workplaces are Guyoungtech USA, which stamps metal motor vehicle body parts, Conecuh County Schools, and Weyerhaeuser, which makes engineered wood products. Incomes in the county are on the low side, and the commute to work is a fairly typical one.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is the Sepulga River, a longer drive away, for time by the water. Confederate Park, also a longer drive, is a park for a quiet afternoon outdoors. Three Notch Museum, again a longer drive, is a museum for anyone curious about local history.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Conecuh County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Conecuh County had 3,383 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 61 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Evergreen weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Conecuh County
- Guyoungtech USAMetal motor vehicle body parts stamping239
- Conecuh County SchoolsSchool district176FTE
- WeyerhaeuserEngineered wood products174
- Evergreen Nursing HomeSkilled nursing facility129
- Evergreen Medical CenterGeneral hospital99FTE
- Reid State Technical CollegeTwo-year college89
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services73
- FedExCourier and express delivery services45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 744 people in all across the county; McKenzie has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of McKenzieRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McKenzie’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 Conecuh County.
McKenzie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McKenzie$116,659
- 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 McKenzie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McKenzie — 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.