Silas, Alabama.
Typical home $117,728 (-5.9% in a year). Mobile, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$173 (+39%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,415 -6%
- $125,143$117,728 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $25,229 -18%
- $142,957$117,728 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.
- Silas$618
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Silas, AL fell 5.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Silas, Choctaw County, Alabama
Silas is a town of 377 people in Choctaw County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Choctaw County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Choctaw County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Silas is a very small town in Choctaw County, Alabama, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Homes are priced modestly, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest weather in January, while summers are hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. People here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many residents. Across Choctaw County, the largest workplaces include Naheola Paper, Choctaw County Schools and Ochsner Choctaw General. Commutes tend to run long, and unemployment across the county has risen over the past year even as the number of jobs has grown a little.
Things to do. Bladon Springs State Park and Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge are both protected areas a short drive away, good for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Sea Warrior Creek, a river, and to Turner's Fort, a fort.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Choctaw County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Choctaw County had 3,364 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chatom weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Choctaw County
- Naheola Paper1,000
- Choctaw County SchoolsSchool district137FTE
- Ochsner Choctaw GeneralCritical access hospital78FTE
- Hunt Refining CompanyTanker trucking, local30
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores25
- Lassiter Lumber CompanyCustom sawmills22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,164 people in all across the county; Silas has none 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Silas’ 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 Choctaw County and the Mobile, AL metro.
Silas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Silas$117,728
- 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.
Zip codes with a Silas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Silas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.