Tuskegee, Alabama.
Typical home $96,604 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$245 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,998 +2%
- $94,607$96,604 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,685 +5%
- $91,919$96,604 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.
- Tuskegee$507
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 70 years.
Typical home values in Tuskegee, AL rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama
Tuskegee is a city of 9,395 people in Macon County. Half its households earn more than $38,000 a year and half less, against $43,707 across Macon County; 29% of its people live below the poverty line. 41% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 59% are rented. Unemployment in Macon County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tuskegee is a small city in Macon County, Alabama, and a very young one by the numbers: the typical resident is far younger than in most American towns, which fits a place built around a university. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is usual. Most homes are rented rather than lived in by their owners, and typical home values are low. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels, government and shops also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in town are the Veterans Health Administration, Macon County Schools and Alabama Supermarket Holdings. The typical commute is short, and few people work from home. Unemployment in Macon County is higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Tuskegee has a strong claim on American history, and museums stand in or beside town: the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, The George Washington Carver Museum and the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Museum. For time outdoors, Tuskegee National Forest is a short drive away, and Fort Hull, a historic fort, is also close. Lake Martin, a reservoir, is a longer drive for a day on the water.
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- 3,132households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macon County had 4,948 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 54 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milstead weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tuskegee
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs818
- Macon County SchoolsSchool district208FTE
- Haynes Ambulance ofAmbulance168
- Alabama Supermarket HoldingsSupermarkets32
- Sodexo at Tuskegee Univ Resident DiningFood service contractors26
- TuskegeeMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 247 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tuskegee’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Macon County.
Tuskegee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tuskegee$96,604
- 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.
- Tuskegee15
Zip codes with a Tuskegee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tuskegee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Tuskegee
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36083 | Tuskegee | 9,109 | — | $118,742 |
| 36088 | Tuskegee Institute | 3,400 | — | $98,861 |