Seale, Alabama.
Typical home $233,574 (+5.7% in a year). Columbus, GA-AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$651 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,512 +6%
- $221,062$233,574 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,004 +25%
- $186,570$233,574 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.
- Seale$1,226
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Seale, AL rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seale, Russell County, Alabama
The Census does not count Seale on its own, so the figures here are Russell County's. Half the county's households earn more than $51,197 a year and half less; 22% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 61% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Russell County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Russell County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seale is a small town in Russell County, in east-central Alabama, where the county's population is spread across the countryside and towns alike. Most homes are lived in by their owners, more than in many places, and home values are modest by national standards. Many residents are adults in the middle of their working years, and a noticeable share of households live below the poverty line.
Work. Across Russell County, unemployment rose over the past year, and the number of jobs dipped slightly in the last year on record. Schools, hospitals and care work, manufacturing, shops, and banking, insurance and property work employ many people. Fewer adults hold a university degree than the national average, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Springer Opera House is a theatre a longer drive away, and the National Infantry Museum is a museum a longer drive away. Fort Mitchell Historic Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Summers are very hot, while winters are mild, though nights can fall to freezing.
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- 23,938households
- 37.5median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Russell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Russell County had 13,969 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Benning Lawson Field weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Russell County
- Phenix City SchoolsSchool district693FTE
- WestRock CPPaperboard mill663
- Venza CareNursing homes407
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters399
- Russell County SchoolsSchool district356FTE
- Alatrade Foods Inc - Phenix CityPoultry processing350
- Jack Hughston Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital299FTE
- Pitts TrailersLogging trailers manufacturing209
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,127 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Russell County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Russell County and the Columbus, GA-AL metro.
Seale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seale$233,574
- 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.
- Seale9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Seale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.