Minter, Alabama.
Typical home $141,542 (-2.2% in a year). Selma, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$284 (+62%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,125 -2%
- $144,667$141,542 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,294 +1%
- $140,248$141,542 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.
- Minter$743
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Minter, AL fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minter, Dallas County, Alabama
The Census does not count Minter 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minter is a small town in Dallas County, Alabama, where most homes are lived in by their owners and rentals are less common than across the county. Incomes are lower than the county's typical level, and many households have a hard time making ends meet. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain and occasional snow over the year.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. The county added jobs over the past year, though unemployment has risen compared with a year earlier. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home, so most commute out for their jobs.
Things to do. Cahaba, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away and offers a quiet look at the area's early history. The National Voting Rights Museum, also a longer drive away, tells the story of the civil rights movement in Selma. Roland Cooper State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, is a good spot for a day outdoors.
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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 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Selma Sse weather station, 18 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.
Minter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minter$141,542
- 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 Minter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.