Trinity, Alabama.
Typical home $241,941 (-1.5% in a year). Decatur, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$638 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,698 -2%
- $245,639$241,941 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,779 +12%
- $216,162$241,941 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.
- Trinity$1,270
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Trinity, AL fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trinity, Lawrence County, Alabama
Trinity is a city of 2,526 people in Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $100,929 a year and half less, against $66,071 across Lawrence County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 8.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trinity is a small city where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few people living below the poverty line. The typical resident is of middle age, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and short on real cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot summers, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in government. Among the larger workplaces in Trinity are Goss Electric and Bmsi, both contractors, and Holston Gases, which makes acetylene. Very few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Across Lawrence County, there are fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Delano Park offers green space to walk in, and the Princess Theatre is a theatre for an evening out. The Blue and Gray Museum is also a short drive away. For a day outdoors, William B. Bankhead National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 930households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 5,551 jobs in 2025, 8.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Decatur 4SE weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Trinity
- BmsiMechanical contractors207
- Goss ElectricElectrical contractors138
- Freight Zone TransportationBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance45
- Holston Gases Inc 21Acetylene manufacturing33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 423 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Trinity’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 Lawrence County and the Decatur, AL metro.
Trinity home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trinity$241,941
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Trinity 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.
- Trinity31.42%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Trinity23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Trinity7
Zip codes with a Trinity address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trinity — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.