Theodore, Alabama.
Typical home $201,227 (+0.5% in a year), asking rent $1,650 . Mobile, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$531 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,061 +1%
- $200,167$201,227 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,073 +17%
- $172,154$201,227 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.
- Theodore$1,056
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Theodore, AL rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Theodore, Mobile County, Alabama
Theodore, in Mobile County, had 6,270 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $67,864 a year and half less, against $58,880 across Mobile County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. 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 construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Theodore is a small community in Mobile County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and rentals are uncommon. Household incomes run higher than across the county, though a notable share of residents still live below the poverty line. The population is somewhat older than the national picture, and winters are mild while summers are hot and the year is a wet one.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, and shops. Several of the town's larger workplaces are in metal and industrial supply, including Sabel Steel Service, Specialty Piping Products and Port City Metal Fabrication. Commutes are of moderate length, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Bellingrath Gardens and Home, a botanical garden, is a short drive away, as are Fowl River and Dog River for time by the water. Mobile International Speedway, a race track, sits in or beside town. For a longer drive, the USS Alabama museum ship lies farther off.
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- 2,309households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
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 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 61 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mobile Dwtn Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Theodore
- Sabel Steel Service, Inc- TheodoreMetals, ferrous and nonferrous, merchant wholesalers34
- Specialty Piping ProductsPatterns, industrial, manufacturing31
- Port City Metal FabricationFabricated structural metal manufacturing22
- Floworks International SuiteIndustrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 108 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Theodore’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 Mobile County and the Mobile, AL metro.
Theodore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Theodore$201,227
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Theodore listings, and the typical home goes pending in 28 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Theodore26.05%
- 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.
- Theodore77
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Theodore22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Theodore$208,657
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Theodore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Theodore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.