Ardmore, Alabama.
Typical home $252,523 (+2.2% in a year). Huntsville, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$747 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,454 +2%
- $247,068$252,523 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,999 +18%
- $214,524$252,523 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.
- Ardmore$1,325
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Ardmore, AL rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ardmore, Limestone County, Alabama
Ardmore is a town of 1,321 people in Limestone County. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Limestone County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Limestone 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ardmore is a small town, home to roughly as many people as fill a few city blocks, and most households own the homes they live in. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay above the worst of the northern cold, while July brings hot summers. Rain and melted snow fall in good measure through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Limestone County, the largest workplaces include Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA, Polaris Industries - Huntsville and Amazon. Commutes run longer than a quick hop across town, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Richland Creek is a river a short drive away, and the Sulphur Trestle Fort Site, an archaeological site, is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center is a museum a longer drive away, and the Huntsville Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in the same longer-drive range.
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- 579households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Limestone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Limestone County had 34,737 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ardmore weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Limestone County
- Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USAManufacturing4,523
- Polaris Industries - HuntsvilleOff-road all-terrain vehicles, wheeled or tracked, manufacturing2,025
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,070
- Limestone County SchoolsSchool district970FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores919
- John C Calhoun State Community CollegeTwo-year college788
- Y-Tec Kelyex Toyotestu Alabama (YKTA)Motor vehicle metal stampings manufacturing749
- Steelcase - AthensBookcases, office-type, manufacturing675
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,271 people in all across the county; Ardmore has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ardmore’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 Limestone County and the Huntsville, AL metro.
Ardmore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ardmore$252,523
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Ardmore 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.
- Ardmore25.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ardmore29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ardmore8
Zip codes with a Ardmore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ardmore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.