Parrish, Alabama.
Typical home $123,774 (+5.3% in a year). Jasper, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$302 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,196 +5%
- $117,578$123,774 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,840 +2%
- $121,933$123,774 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.
- Parrish$650
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Parrish, AL rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parrish, Walker County, Alabama
Parrish is a town of 982 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parrish is a very small town in Walker County, Alabama, where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are mild, with a little snow now and then, and summers are hot. Rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Walker County, some of the largest workplaces are Mar-Jac Poultry, Walker County Schools and Walker Baptist Medical Center. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with most of the country, and the commute to work is fairly long.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby, including Lewis Smith Lake, a reservoir, and rivers such as Locust Fork and Mulberry Fork. Rickwood Caverns State Park is a protected area to explore. All of these are a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%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, 12 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; Parrish 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parrish’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.
Parrish home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parrish$123,774
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parrish9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Parrish address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parrish — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.