Allgood, Alabama.
Typical home $176,839 (+2.8% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$40 (+5%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $4,785 +3%
- $172,054$176,839 since Sep 2025
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.
- Allgood$928
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Allgood, AL rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Allgood, Blount County, Alabama
Allgood is a town of 548 people in Blount County. Unemployment in Blount County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Blount County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Allgood is a very small town in Blount County, Alabama, with a younger population than is typical across the country. Homes here cost less than in much of the nation, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Blount County, some of the largest workplaces are Blount County Schools, Tyson Farms and Walmart. The drive to work is long compared with many places, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Little Warrior River is a short drive away, as is Calvert Prong Little Warrior River, and both suit time spent by the water. Farther afield, Rickwood Caverns State Park is a protected area that takes a longer drive to reach. Barber Motorsports Park, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 37 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Blount County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Blount County had 9,229 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oneonta weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blount County
- Blount County SchoolsSchool district927FTE
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing663
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters277
- TLC Nursing CenterNursing homes123
- St. Vincents BlountCritical access hospital117FTE
- Oneonta City SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- Diversicare of OneontaNursing homes96
- LKQMotor vehicle parts, used, merchant wholesalers61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,958 people in all across the county; Allgood 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of AllgoodRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Allgood’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 Blount County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Allgood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Allgood$176,839
- 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.
Zip codes with a Allgood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Allgood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.