Berry, Alabama.
Typical home $191,354 (+4.1% in a year). Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$500 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,529 +4%
- $183,824$191,354 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,647 +5%
- $181,707$191,354 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.
- Berry$1,004
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 67 years.
Typical home values in Berry, AL rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berry, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Berry is a town of 1,216 people in Tuscaloosa County. Unemployment in Tuscaloosa County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tuscaloosa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berry is a small town in Tuscaloosa County, with a population small enough that most people know one another. Homes here cost less than the typical home across much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Tuscaloosa County, the biggest workplaces include The University of Alabama, Mercedes Benz US. International and DCH Regional Medical Center. Commutes are fairly long, and almost no one works from home. Joblessness in the county has crept up a little over the past year, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby: Lake Tuscaloosa is a reservoir, and North River is a river, both a longer drive away. Lake Lurleen State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area built around a lake. For something indoors, the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art is a longer drive away as well.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Tuscaloosa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tuscaloosa County had 98,620 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayette weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tuscaloosa County
- The University of AlabamaUniversity or college7,472
- Mercedes Benz US. InternationalLight utility trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture6,029
- DCH Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,252FTE
- Tuscaloosa County SchoolsSchool district1,851FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,176
- Tuscaloosa City SchoolsSchool district1,162FTE
- Lear Corporation - TuscaloosaAutomotive supplier803
- Bryce HospitalPsychiatric hospital705FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 136 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 22,477 people in all across the county; Berry has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berry’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 Tuscaloosa County and the Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
Berry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berry$191,354
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Berry17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Berry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.