Wilmer, Alabama.
Typical home $199,596 (+1.6% in a year). Mobile, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$539 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,157 +2%
- $196,439$199,596 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,255 +17%
- $170,341$199,596 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.
- Wilmer$1,048
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Wilmer, AL rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilmer, Mobile County, Alabama
The Census does not count Wilmer on its own, so the figures here are Mobile County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,880 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 66% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Mobile County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mobile County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilmer is a town in Mobile County, in the southwest corner of Alabama, where the land reaches down toward Mobile Bay and the Gulf Coast. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many of the people here have been part of the area's long history on the coast. The summers are hot and wet, and the winters are cool, with little or no snow.
Work. Across Mobile County, the most common jobs are in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Most residents leave home to go to work, since relatively few work from home, and the typical trip takes a modest amount of time by car. Unemployment has edged up over the past year, and the number of jobs in the county dipped slightly in the most recent year on record.
Things to do. Big Creek Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and suits anyone who enjoys being out on the water. The USS Alabama, a museum built around a famous battleship, is one of the best known sites in the area and is a longer drive away. The Mobile Museum of Art is also a longer drive away and offers a quieter afternoon indoors.
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- 161,665households
- 38.5median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Mobile County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mobile County had 175,010 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 67 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mobile weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mobile County
- Mobile County SchoolsSchool district5,883FTE
- Austal USAShipyard2,754
- University of South AlabamaUniversity or college2,470
- Hargrove Engineers and ConstructorsConstruction engineering services2,328
- G.A. West & CoIndustrial building construction, general contractors2,200
- USA Health University HospitalGeneral hospital2,196FTE
- Airbus Mobile Manufacturing SiteAircraft manufacturing2,145
- Mobile Infirmary Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,124FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 449 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 56,584 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Mobile County, 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 Mobile County and the Mobile, AL metro.
Wilmer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilmer$199,596
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Wilmer 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.
- Wilmer30.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wilmer28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wilmer7
Zip codes with a Wilmer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilmer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.