Waverly, Alabama.
Typical home $387,220 (+6.7% in a year). LaGrange, GA-AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,102 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,478 +7%
- $362,743$387,220 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,015 +23%
- $315,206$387,220 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.
- Waverly$2,032
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Waverly, AL rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waverly, Chambers County, Alabama
Waverly is a town of 159 people in Chambers County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Chambers County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chambers County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waverly is a very small town in Chambers County, Alabama, where almost every home is lived in by the people who own it. Poverty is rare here, and homes are valued well above what incomes across the county would suggest. Winters are mild, with cold spells in January, and summers get hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Chambers County, some of the largest workplaces are Ajin USA, which stamps metal motor vehicle body parts, Johns Soules Foods Valley, a poultry processor, and WestRock CP, which makes folding paperboard boxes. Unemployment in the county is steady compared with a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Jordan–Hare Stadium is the big college football stadium in Auburn, and the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve is a park for walking among the trees. A longer drive brings you to Lake Martin, a large reservoir, and to Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, an archaeological site with a place in the region's history.
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- 1%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Chambers County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chambers County had 9,358 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Camp Hill 2NW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chambers County
- Ajin USAStamping metal motor vehicle body parts638
- Johns Soules Foods ValleyPoultry processing542
- WestRock CPFolding paperboard box manufacturing421
- Chambers County SchoolsSchool district396FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters274
- Knauf Insulation Plant 2Manufacturer of wool fiberglass insulation255
- Eamc-lanierGeneral hospital172FTE
- JH IndustryStamping metal motor vehicle body parts150
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,461 people in all across the county; Waverly has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Waverly’s census tracts, 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 Chambers County and the LaGrange, GA-AL metro.
Waverly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waverly$387,220
- 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.
- Waverly6
Zip codes with a Waverly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waverly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.