Newton, Alabama.
Typical home $252,463 (+2.4% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$724 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,909 +2%
- $246,553$252,463 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,920 +30%
- $193,543$252,463 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.
- Newton$1,325
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Newton, AL rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newton, Houston County, Alabama
Newton is a town of 1,607 people in Houston County. Half its households earn more than $60,030 a year and half less, against $58,626 across Houston County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Houston County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newton is a small town in Houston County, Alabama, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though poverty is still a real part of life for some residents, and few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers turn hot, and rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and professional and business services also providing many jobs. Across Houston County, some of the largest workplaces are Southeast Health Medical Center, Wayne Sanderson Farms and Flowers Hospital. The county's unemployment rate is higher than it was a year earlier, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, with only a few people working from home.
Things to do. The Choctawhatchee River runs in or beside town, and the Little Choctawhatchee River is a short drive away. The United States Army Aviation Museum is also a short drive away, and the Dothan Opera House, a theatre, is a longer drive.
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- 585households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 51,288 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dothan Regional Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Southeast Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,438FTE
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing1,126
- Flowers HospitalGeneral hospital1,030FTE
- Dothan City SchoolsSchool district887FTE
- Houston County SchoolsSchool district720FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- George C Wallace Community College-DothanTwo-year college384
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,482 people in all across the county; Newton has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newton’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 Houston County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Newton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newton$252,463
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Newton 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.
- Newton38.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newton32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newton9
Zip codes with a Newton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.