Slocomb, Alabama.
Typical home $131,458 (+3.8% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$326 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,765 +4%
- $126,693$131,458 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,270 +10%
- $119,188$131,458 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.
- Slocomb$690
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Slocomb, AL rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Slocomb, Geneva County, Alabama
Slocomb is a city of 2,082 people in Geneva County. Half its households earn more than $38,056 a year and half less, against $52,771 across Geneva County. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. 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 people in Geneva County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Slocomb is a small city in Geneva County, Alabama, and most homes in town are lived in by their owners. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes tend to be modestly priced. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Geneva County, some of the largest workplaces are Geneva County Schools, Wiregrass Medical Center and Air Distribution, a maker of metal grills and louvers. Jobs across the county grew last year, and most people travel to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. Rivers are close to hand: the Choctawhatchee River and the Little Choctawhatchee River are both a longer drive away. Also a longer drive away are Florida Caverns State Park, a protected area, and the Wiregrass Museum of Art. Winters are mild with little or no snow, and summers are hot and wet, which suits time outdoors in the cooler months.
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- 792households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Geneva County 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, 17 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; Slocomb 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Slocomb’s 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 Geneva County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Slocomb home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Slocomb$131,458
- 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.
- Slocomb9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Slocomb address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Slocomb — 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.