Mentone, Alabama.
Typical home $310,625 (+7.8% in a year). Fort Payne, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$979 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,380 +8%
- $288,245$310,625 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,738 +36%
- $227,887$310,625 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.
- Mentone$1,630
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Mentone, AL rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mentone, DeKalb County, Alabama
Mentone is a town of 319 people in DeKalb County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. 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 people in DeKalb County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mentone is a very small town, and its people are older than in most of the country. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and typical home values here sit well above what most households in DeKalb County earn in a year. Winters are cool and summers warm, with a little snow most years and plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades, and some work from home. Across DeKalb County, the largest workplaces include Terex, which makes garbage truck bodies, DeKalb County Schools, and Koch Foods, a chicken processor. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. DeSoto Falls, a waterfall, is in or beside town, and DeSoto State Park and Little River Canyon National Preserve are each a short drive away. East Fork Little River, also a short drive off, is a good place to be near running water. Walkers and sightseers have a good deal of protected land and falling water close at hand.
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- 37%of adults have a degree
- 10%work from home
What people in DeKalb County 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, a mile 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; Mentone 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mentone’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 DeKalb County and the Fort Payne, AL metro.
Mentone home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mentone$310,625
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Mentone listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Mentone19.87%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mentone47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mentone9
Zip codes with a Mentone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mentone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.