Thomasville, Alabama.
Typical home $145,587 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$285 (+60%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,963 +4%
- $139,625$145,587 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,030 -14%
- $168,617$145,587 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.
- Thomasville$764
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Thomasville, AL rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thomasville, Clarke County, Alabama
Thomasville is a city of 3,649 people in Clarke County. Unemployment in Clarke County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clarke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thomasville is a small city in Clarke County, Alabama. Household incomes across the county run below the national picture, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, while summers turn hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and transport, warehousing and utilities also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in town are Walmart, Thomasville City Schools and Crowne Health Care of Thomasville. Jobs across Clarke County have been shrinking, and unemployment there is higher than it was a year ago. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Horse Creek, a river in or beside town, and the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum, also in or beside town, are the closest places to spend an afternoon. A longer drive leads to Fort Sinquefield, a historic fort site, and to the Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife.
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- 1,204households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Clarke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clarke County had 7,704 jobs in 2025, 5.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Thomasville weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Thomasville
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters243
- Thomasville City SchoolsSchool district125FTE
- Crowne Health Care of ThomasvilleSkilled nursing facility99
- Lewis Pest ControlPest control services71
- Lewis General ContractorsAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building28
- Black Sheep WoodlandsLogging25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 466 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Thomasville’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 Clarke County.
Thomasville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thomasville$145,587
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Thomasville listings — 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.
- Thomasville21.63%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Thomasville28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Thomasville4
Zip codes with a Thomasville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thomasville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.