Semmes, Alabama.
Typical home $238,964 (-0.3% in a year), asking rent $1,500 . Mobile, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$642 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $697 -0%
- $239,661$238,964 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,992 +20%
- $198,971$238,964 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.
- Semmes$1,254
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Semmes, AL fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Semmes, Mobile County, Alabama
Semmes is a city of 4,941 people in Mobile County. Half its households earn more than $66,417 a year and half less, against $58,880 across Mobile County. Unemployment in Mobile County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Semmes is a small city in Mobile County where the typical resident is older than in most American towns. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and a typical home costs a good deal to buy, with rents that are not low either. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect given the incomes, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Semmes are Threaded Fasteners (Morris Hill), a maker of bolts, nuts and screws, along with the local mail and parcel delivery operation and a Goodwill Industries of the Gulf Coast store. Across Mobile County, unemployment has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The Mobile Museum of Art and the Mobile Botanical Gardens are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, the USS Alabama is a museum ship well known to visitors. Winters are mild and almost free of snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year, so plans can usually be made with little worry about cold.
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- 2,286households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mobile County had 175,010 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 67 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mobile weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Semmes
- Threaded Fasteners (Morris Hill)Bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing44
- SemmesMail and parcel delivery25
- Goodwill Industries of the Gulf CoastUsed merchandise stores22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 91 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Semmes’ 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 Mobile County and the Mobile, AL metro.
Semmes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Semmes$238,964
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Semmes listings, and the typical home goes pending in 41 days — 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.
- Semmes31.01%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Semmes68
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Semmes23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Semmes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Semmes — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.