Brookwood, Alabama.
Typical home $211,010 (-3.1% in a year). Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$496 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,843 -3%
- $217,853$211,010 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,449 +5%
- $200,561$211,010 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.
- Brookwood$1,108
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 68 years.
Typical home values in Brookwood, AL fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Brookwood is a town of 2,504 people in Tuscaloosa County. Half its households earn more than $81,394 a year and half less, against $66,231 across Tuscaloosa County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookwood is a small Alabama town in Tuscaloosa County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Tuscaloosa County, the largest workplaces include The University of Alabama, Mercedes Benz US. International and DCH Regional Medical Center. Few people work from home, and most make a fairly long drive to their jobs each day.
Things to do. A short drive away are North River and Gallant Lake for time on the water, and the University of Alabama Arboretum, a botanical garden. A longer drive takes you to Bryant–Denny Stadium, where the university's football is played, and to the Moundville Archaeological Site, one of the notable archaeological sites in the region.
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- 1,067households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents 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 54° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bankhead L&d weather station, 15 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; Brookwood has one 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookwood’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.
Brookwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookwood$211,010
- 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.
- Brookwood7
Zip codes with a Brookwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.