Boaz, Alabama.
Typical home $215,053 (+4.4% in a year). Gadsden, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$612 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,120 +4%
- $205,933$215,053 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,294 +24%
- $173,758$215,053 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.
- Boaz$1,129
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Boaz, AL rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boaz, Etowah County, Alabama
Boaz is a city of 10,107 people in Etowah County. Half its households earn more than $49,846 a year and half less, against $54,563 across Etowah County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Etowah County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boaz is a city in Etowah County with a young population for the area, and incomes that run below the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places. Winters are cool and short, with very little snow, while summers are warm, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Boaz are Marshall Medical Centers South, Walmart and Boaz City Schools. Unemployment across Etowah County is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has barely changed. A typical commute is a fairly short drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time on the water, Guntersville Lake is a large reservoir a longer drive away, and Lake Guntersville State Park, also a longer drive, is a protected area on its shores. Noccalula Falls Park, a botanical garden, is another longer drive away and a good choice for a walk among gardens and trails.
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- 3,514households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Etowah County had 33,095 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sand Mount Substn weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boaz
- Marshall Medical Centers SouthGeneral hospital1,361FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters378
- Boaz City SchoolsSchool district263FTE
- Diversicare of BoazNursing homes83
- BPI Media GGroupPrint shops, lithographic72
- Marshall Dekalb ElectricDistribution of electric power55
- Mastin'sElectric contracting49
- BoazMail and parcel delivery42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 794 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boaz’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Etowah County and the Gadsden, AL metro.
Boaz home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boaz$215,053
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Boaz listings, and the typical home goes pending in 58 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Boaz28.42%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Boaz87
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Boaz20
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Boaz address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boaz — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Boaz
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35957 | Boaz | 16,737 | — | $206,837 |
| 35956 | Boaz | 8,748 | — | $223,663 |