Perdido, Alabama.
Typical home $162,506 (+5.6% in a year). Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$462 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,563 +6%
- $153,943$162,506 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,239 +13%
- $144,267$162,506 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.
- Perdido$853
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Perdido, AL rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perdido, Baldwin County, Alabama
Perdido, in Baldwin County, had 730 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Baldwin County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Baldwin County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perdido is a very small community in Baldwin County, Alabama, with far fewer people than most towns. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are hot, snow is rare, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing also employing many. Across Baldwin County, some of the largest workplaces are Baldwin County Schools, Thomas Hospital and Columbia Southern University. The typical commute is a little longer than a short drive across town.
Things to do. Getting out means a longer drive to most places nearby. Bottle Creek Indian Mounds is an archaeological site, and Blakeley is another, both a longer drive away. Little River State Forest, also a longer drive, is a protected area, and the Alabama River is a river to spend time beside.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Baldwin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baldwin County had 87,943 jobs in 2025, 3.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 74°. About 72 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bay Minette weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baldwin County
- Baldwin County SchoolsSchool district3,835FTE
- Thomas HospitalGeneral hospital1,015FTE
- Columbia Southern UniversityUniversity or college943
- Coastal Alabama Community CollegeTwo-year college736
- South Baldwin Regional Medical CenteGeneral hospital708FTE
- Brett/Robinson GulfResidential property managing634
- Legacy HospiceHome health care agencies497
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters405
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 153 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,243 people in all across the county; Perdido has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Perdido’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 Baldwin County and the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro.
Perdido home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perdido$162,506
- 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.
- Perdido8
Zip codes with a Perdido address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perdido — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.