Taylor, Alabama.
Typical home $167,296 (+0.6% in a year). Dothan, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$464 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,005 +1%
- $166,291$167,296 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,608 +26%
- $132,689$167,296 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.
- Taylor$878
- 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 Taylor, AL rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Taylor, Houston County, Alabama
Taylor is a city of 2,262 people in Houston County. Half its households earn more than $67,464 a year and half less, against $58,626 across Houston County. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Houston County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Taylor is a small city in Houston County, Alabama, with a population on the younger side compared with many towns that older homeowners might know. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. Typical home values sit at a modest level, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in other services. Across Houston County, some of the biggest employers are Southeast Health Medical Center, Wayne Sanderson Farms and Flowers Hospital. Very few people work from home, and the typical commute is of middling length.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Wiregrass Museum of Art and the Dothan Opera House, a theatre. For time outdoors, Chattahoochee State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 1,003households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 51,288 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dothan Regional Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Southeast Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,438FTE
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing1,126
- Flowers HospitalGeneral hospital1,030FTE
- Dothan City SchoolsSchool district887FTE
- Houston County SchoolsSchool district720FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- George C Wallace Community College-DothanTwo-year college384
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 95 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,482 people in all across the county; Taylor has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Taylor’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 Houston County and the Dothan, AL metro.
Taylor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Taylor$167,296
- 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.
- Taylor7
Zip codes with a Taylor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Taylor — 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.