Roanoke, Alabama.
Typical home $146,874 (+2.6% in a year). LaGrange, GA-AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$400 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,680 +3%
- $143,194$146,874 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,729 +6%
- $138,145$146,874 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.
- Roanoke$771
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 57 years.
Typical home values in Roanoke, AL rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama
Roanoke is a city of 5,311 people in Randolph County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Randolph County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roanoke is a small city in Randolph County, Alabama, where the people tend to be older than across the country as a whole and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes in the county run below the typical American household's, and homes here cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cool and fairly mild, summers are hot, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in government. Some of the largest workplaces in Roanoke are Roanoke City Schools, TDG Operations, which spins carpet and rug yarn from purchased fiber, and Traylor Health & Rehab, a skilled nursing facility. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people travel to a workplace rather than working from home.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, an archaeological site a longer drive away. For time on the water, West Point Lake and Lake Wedowee are both reservoirs a longer drive from town. Whitewater Creek is one of several creeks and rivers in the surrounding countryside, also a longer drive away.
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- 2,344households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Randolph County had 4,887 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rock Mills weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Roanoke
- Roanoke City SchoolsSchool district167FTE
- TDG OperationsSpinning carpet and rug yarn from purchased fiber120
- Traylor Health & RehabSkilled nursing facilities95
- Alabama Power CompanyElectric power distribution22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 237 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roanoke’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 Randolph County and the LaGrange, GA-AL metro.
Roanoke home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roanoke$146,874
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Roanoke listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Roanoke19.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Roanoke31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Roanoke7
Zip codes with a Roanoke address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roanoke — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.