Pinckard, Alabama.
Typical home $149,609 (-1.1% in a year). Ozark, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $93 (-11%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $1,613 -1%
- $151,221$149,609 since Sep 2025
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.
- Pinckard$785
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pinckard, AL fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pinckard, Dale County, Alabama
Pinckard is a town of 582 people in Dale County. Half its households earn more than $58,162 a year and half less, against $54,963 across Dale County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dale County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pinckard is a very small town in Dale County, Alabama, where the people are older than in most of the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes here cost well under what many American towns ask. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops and in manufacturing. Few adults have a four-year degree, and few work from home, so most people travel some way to their jobs. Across Dale County, some of the largest workplaces are M1 Support Services, Dale County Schools and Dale Medical Center, though the job count in the county slipped last year and unemployment has edged up.
Things to do. The Choctawhatchee River and the Little Choctawhatchee River are both a short drive away, with water for fishing or a quiet afternoon outdoors. A longer drive brings you to the United States Army Aviation Museum, and in Dothan the Wiregrass Museum of Art and the Dothan Opera House offer galleries and a theatre.
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- 297households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dale County had 18,014 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer 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, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dale County
- M1 Support ServicesSupport activities for air transportation3,839
- Michelin NA - US4 Dothan FacilityTires manufacturing550
- Dale County SchoolsSchool district345FTE
- Amentum ServicesAviation schools337
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters303
- Dale Medical CenterGeneral hospital272FTE
- Coleman American Companies271
- Ozark City SchoolsSchool district199FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,839 people in all across the county; Pinckard has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Pinckard’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 Dale County and the Ozark, AL metro.
Pinckard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pinckard$149,609
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Pinckard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pinckard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.