Verbena, Alabama.
Typical home $234,511 (+7.6% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$667 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,620 +8%
- $217,890$234,511 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,821 +22%
- $192,689$234,511 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.
- Verbena$1,231
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Verbena, AL rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Verbena, Chilton County, Alabama
The Census does not count Verbena on its own, so the figures here are Chilton County's. Half the county's households earn more than $65,603 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Chilton County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chilton County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Verbena is a town in Chilton County in central Alabama, and most homes across the county are lived in by their owners. Winters are cool with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain falls often through the year.
Work. Across Chilton County, most working residents are in schools, hospitals and social care, building trades, manufacturing, or retail. Jobs grew over the past year, though unemployment has risen somewhat from a year earlier. Working from home is uncommon, so most people travel to a job each day.
Things to do. The closest place to visit is the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home, a museum a short drive away. Further off, Fort Toulouse, a fort, and the Coosa River, a river, are each a longer drive away.
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- 17,875households
- 38.7median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Chilton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chilton County had 9,431 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clanton weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chilton County
- Chilton County SchoolsSchool district782FTE
- AdientAutomobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing690
- Kumi Manufacturing AlabamaMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing346
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters320
- Foodservice Alabama300
- Boise Cascade CoEngineered wood member except truss manufacturing235
- St. Vincent's Chilton CountyHealthcare191
- West Fraser - MaplesvilleSawmills139
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,104 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Chilton County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Chilton County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Verbena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Verbena$234,511
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Verbena 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.
- Verbena19.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Verbena23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Verbena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Verbena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Verbena
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36091 | Verbena | 3,290 | — | $234,080 |
| 36051 | Marbury | 3,050 | — | $221,192 |