Pansey, Alabama.
Typical home $161,579 (+6.4% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$474 (+127%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $9,656 +6%
- $151,923$161,579 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,211 +34%
- $120,369$161,579 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.
- Pansey$848
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Pansey, AL rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pansey, Houston County, Alabama
The Census does not count Pansey on its own, so the figures here are Houston County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,626 a year and half less; 18% 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 Houston County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Houston County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pansey is in Houston County, in the southeastern part of Alabama. The figures that follow describe the county as a whole, since the Census does not count the town on its own. The typical resident is in middle age, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a fair share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and the area receives a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in transport, warehousing and utilities. Jobs grew slightly over the past year, though unemployment has edged up since the year before. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home, so most commute to a workplace, usually a fairly short drive.
Things to do. George W. Andrews Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the closest outdoor option. Farther off, Florida Caverns State Park is a protected area, and the Dothan Opera House is a theatre, both a longer drive away.
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- 43,302households
- 40.3median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Houston County 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 59° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Donalsonville weather station, 17 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. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Houston County, 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.
Pansey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pansey$161,579
- 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 Pansey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pansey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.