Samson, Alabama.
Typical home $144,474 (+1.9% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$303 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,746 +2%
- $141,727$144,474 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,648 +1%
- $142,826$144,474 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.
- Samson$758
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Samson, AL rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Samson, Geneva County, Alabama
Samson is a town of 1,874 people in Geneva County. Half its households earn more than $33,424 a year and half less, against $52,771 across Geneva County; 37% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Geneva County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Samson is a small Alabama town in Geneva County. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and the typical home is modest in price. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with little or no snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, then shops and manufacturing. Across Geneva County, some of the largest workplaces are Geneva County Schools, Wiregrass Medical Center and Walmart. Job numbers across the county have been growing, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. The closest named places are all a longer drive away. The United States Army Aviation Museum is one of the best known, and Ponce de Leon Springs State Park, a protected area, offers a quieter outing. Lake DeFuniak is a lake worth the trip when the summer heat, which gets hot by July, sets in.
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- 733households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 37%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Geneva County had 5,591 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 62 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Geneva #2 weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Geneva County
- Air DistributionManufacturer aluminumsteel grill and louvers naics: 332323; 332813 sic: 3446; 3471 naicssic description: architectural metalworkanodizing ruskin reliable475
- Sysco Gulf CoastDried foods merchant wholesalers305
- Geneva County SchoolsSchool district298FTE
- Wiregrass Medical CenterGeneral hospital150FTE
- Geneva City SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores108
- Olam Peanut Shelling CompanyPeanut shelling105
- Outdoor AluminumBleacher seating manufacturing90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,425 people in all across the county; Samson has one 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Samson’s 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 Geneva County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Samson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Samson$144,474
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Samson listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Samson16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Samson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Samson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.