Saks, Alabama.
Typical home $141,982 (+4.3% in a year). Anniston-Oxford, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$378 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,896 +4%
- $136,085$141,982 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,005 +15%
- $122,977$141,982 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.
- Saks$745
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Saks, AL rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saks, Calhoun County, Alabama
Saks, in Calhoun County, had 9,956 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $49,753 a year and half less, against $55,029 across Calhoun County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saks is a community in Calhoun County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is modest in price. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many towns, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in much of the country. Winters are mild, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Calhoun County, some of the largest workplaces are Northeast Alabama Regional MED CTR, Jacksonville State University and Calhoun County Schools. Jobs across the county have slipped slightly over the past year, and unemployment there has edged up. The typical commute is a fairly short one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Anniston Museum of Natural History is in or beside town. A short drive away are Freedom Riders National Monument, which marks a key moment in the civil rights movement, and the Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for walking and wildlife. For a longer outing, Cheaha State Park offers mountain scenery, and Talladega Superspeedway is one of the best known race tracks in the country.
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- 4,211households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 43,473 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anniston Metro Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Northeast Alabama Regional MED CTRGeneral hospital1,454FTE
- Jacksonville State UniversityUniversity or college1,275
- Calhoun County SchoolsSchool district949FTE
- New Flyer of AmericaAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture927
- Oxford City SchoolsSchool district484FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters379
- McWaneFoundries, iron346
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters338
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 86 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,701 people in all across the county; Saks has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of SaksRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of SaksRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saks’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Calhoun County and the Anniston-Oxford, AL metro.
Saks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saks$141,982
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Saks listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Saks20.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saks31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saks12
Zip codes with a Saks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.