Oakman, Alabama.
Typical home $135,173 (+1.7% in a year). Jasper, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$214 (+43%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,276 +2%
- $132,897$135,173 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $27,483 -17%
- $162,656$135,173 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.
- Oakman$709
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Oakman, AL rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oakman, Walker County, Alabama
Oakman is a town of 771 people in Walker County. Unemployment in Walker County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Walker 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oakman is a very small town in Walker County, Alabama, where most neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, while summers turn hot and the year is wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Almost nobody works from home. Across Walker County, some of the largest workplaces are Mar-Jac Poultry, Walker County Schools and Walker Baptist Medical Center. Jobs in the county grew slightly last year, and unemployment there has edged up from a year ago.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby, though each place is a longer drive away. Locust Fork is a river, and Lewis Smith Lake is a reservoir. Natural Bridge Park is a protected area for a day outdoors, and Tuscaloosa Museum of Art is a museum for a quieter outing.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Walker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walker County had 18,858 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jasper weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walker County
- Mar-Jac PoultryMeat products made from a combination of poultry and other meats893
- Walker County SchoolsSchool district848FTE
- Bevill State Community CollegeTwo-year college573
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters382
- Walker Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital353FTE
- Jasper City SchoolsSchool district318FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters265
- Walker Rehabilitation CenterNursing homes175
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,630 people in all across the county; Oakman has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oakman’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 Walker County and the Jasper, AL metro.
Oakman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oakman$135,173
- 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 Oakman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oakman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.