Bridgeport, Alabama.
Typical home $135,664 (-7.0% in a year). Scottsboro, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$297 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,269 -7%
- $145,934$135,664 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,206 -4%
- $141,871$135,664 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.
- Bridgeport$712
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bridgeport, AL fell 7.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bridgeport, Jackson County, Alabama
Bridgeport is a city of 2,264 people in Jackson County. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bridgeport is a small city in Jackson County, Alabama, with a median age a little below the middle of the range for many American towns. More of its homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though a good share of residents live in poverty, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers are warm, with rain spread through the year and some melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are Jackson County Schools, Highlands Medical Center and the WestRock CP papermill. Unemployment in the county has risen slightly over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Most people commute to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. The Bridgeport Depot Museum is in or beside town. A short drive away are Russell Cave National Monument, a protected area, and Nickajack Lake, a reservoir. For a longer outing, the Tennessee Aquarium is a longer drive away.
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- 1,072households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 33%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 15,108 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bridgeport Northwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Jackson County SchoolsSchool district699FTE
- Heat Transfer Products GroupAir-conditioning equipment manufacturing452
- WestRock CPPapermill420
- Highlands Medical CenterGeneral hospital403FTE
- Maples Industries Plant 1Rugs and carpets made from textile materials350
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Sanoh AmericaBrake hose assemblies manufacturing286
- Scottsboro City SchoolsSchool district265FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,434 people in all across the county; Bridgeport has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Bridgeport’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 Jackson County and the Scottsboro, AL metro.
Bridgeport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bridgeport$135,664
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Bridgeport 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.
- Bridgeport17.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bridgeport23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bridgeport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bridgeport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.