Henry County, Alabama Eviction Risk: Very Low

Henry County, Alabama eviction laws carries an average eviction-risk score of 2.2/10 (Low) across its 4 incorporated cities, placing it at rank 51 of 67 Alabama counties, where rank 1 is the highest-risk. That position means 50 counties in the state carry more risk than Henry County, and only 16 are more landlord-friendly, situating the county squarely in the lower-risk third of Alabama eviction laws. For landlords, the headline number signals a rental market with relatively stable tenancy, modest rent burden (average 27.7% of income), and average asking rents near $718 per month.

Within the county the spread is tight but real: individual city scores run from 1.6 to 2.3, a 0.7-point band that still matters when selecting specific submarkets. At an average renter share of 25.2% of households, this is a modestly renter-occupied rural county, which keeps vacancy pressure contained but also limits the depth of the tenant pool when a unit turns over.

The cities inside Henry County

The highest-risk submarket is Headland, the county seat, with a score of 2.3/10 and a population of 5,217. While 2.3 is still firmly Low on a 10-point scale, it sits at the top of the county range and draws the largest tenant pool, so landlords there should expect proportionally more lease-management activity than in smaller towns. Newville comes in second at 2.1/10 with a population of 515, and Abbeville scores 2/10 with 2,748 residents, making it the second-largest market in the county and a consistent mid-range performer.

Haleburg, the county's smallest community at 211 residents, posts the lowest score in the county at 1.6/10, meaning eviction-related risk indicators there are the most benign in Henry County. Risk is genuinely hyper-local: a landlord operating in Headland faces a measurably different profile than one operating 10 miles away in Haleburg, even under identical state law.

State-level laws that apply here

Every landlord in Henry County operates under the Alabama eviction laws Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (Ala. Code § 35-9A). For non-payment of rent, the required notice period is 7 days. Lease violations that can be cured require a 14-day notice, and a no-cause end-of-term notice must give the tenant 30 days. Landlords must provide 48 hours notice before entry. An uncontested case typically resolves in 30 to 45 days; a contested case can run 60 to 120 days. The direct cost stack for a single eviction filing ranges from $200 to $300 in court filing fees, $30 to $150 for sheriff lockout service, and $500 to $2,500 in attorney fees if counsel is retained. Alabama eviction laws does not require just cause to terminate a tenancy, and state law preempts any local rent-control ordinance, so no city within Henry County can impose its own caps. Reviewing the full Alabama eviction laws eviction process and understanding Alabama eviction costs before your first filing here will sharpen your timeline and budget assumptions. Alabama security deposit limits and Alabama tenant protections are also governed at the state level, so no local carve-outs apply.

With a poverty rate of 12.3% and a renter share of 25.2%, Henry County's tenant base is predominantly owner-occupied and working-class; see the city grid above for score-level detail on each of the county's 4 municipalities.