Arab, Alabama.
Typical home $239,446 (+1.9% in a year). Albertville, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$680 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,565 +2%
- $234,881$239,446 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,518 +20%
- $198,928$239,446 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.
- Arab$1,257
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Arab, AL rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arab, Marshall County, Alabama
Arab is a city of 8,461 people in Marshall County. Half its households earn more than $64,333 a year and half less, against $62,571 across Marshall County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Marshall County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arab is a small city in Marshall County, Alabama, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little above the county's, and residents are on the younger side compared with many towns read about by homeowners. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in professional and business services, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Arab are Arab City Schools, Orchid Orthopedic Solutions and Progress Rail. Most people drive to work, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Guntersville Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is Painted Bluff, an archaeological site. Farther afield, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, a museum, and Cathedral Caverns State Park, a protected area, are each a longer drive away.
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- 3,344households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 41,043 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Guntersville weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Arab
- Arab City SchoolsSchool district283FTE
- Orchid Orthopedic SolutionsSurgical implants manufacturing124
- HFIMotor vehicle interior systems manufacturing109
- Progress RailRailroad rolling stock manufacturing81
- Diversicare of ArabNursing homes71
- Circulus ArabPolyvinyl chloride resins manufacturing62
- Arab Cartage & Express CoGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload61
- Arab FoodlandCommissaries, primarily groceries61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 651 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arab’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 Marshall County and the Albertville, AL metro.
Arab home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arab$239,446
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Arab listings, and the typical home goes pending in 67 days — 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.
- Arab22.94%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Arab67
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arab110
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Arab25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Arab$236,233
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Arab address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arab — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.