Ashville, Alabama.
Typical home $264,818 (+6.4% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$696 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,034 +6%
- $248,784$264,818 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,292 +14%
- $232,526$264,818 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.
- Ashville$1,390
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Ashville, AL rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashville, St. Clair County, Alabama
Ashville is a city of 2,346 people in St. Clair County. Half its households earn more than $69,362 a year and half less, against $77,463 across St. Clair County. Unemployment in St. Clair County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Clair 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashville is a small city and the seat of St. Clair County, Alabama. Household incomes here run below the county's as a whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot by July, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across St. Clair County, the largest workplaces include St Clair County Schools, Pell City Schools and Walmart. Commutes tend to be long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Horse Pens 40, a park, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, a museum, and to Talladega Superspeedway, a race track. The Cahaba River, a river, is also a longer drive away.
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- 808households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 36 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in St. Clair County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Clair County had 22,380 jobs in 2025, 1.8% 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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Clair County
- St Clair County SchoolsSchool district818FTE
- Pell City SchoolsSchool district424FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters328
- Unipres AlabamaCar bodies, kit, manufacturing323
- Meyer Utility StructuresFabricated structural metal manufacturing309
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Benjamin Moore & CoArchitectural coatings manufacturing220
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,057 people in all across the county; Ashville has two of its own. 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 windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 St. Clair County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Ashville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashville$264,818
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Ashville 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.
- Ashville19.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ashville33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ashville8
Zip codes with a Ashville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.