Buhl, Alabama.
Typical home $193,448 (-1.5% in a year). Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$341 (+51%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,997 -2%
- $196,445$193,448 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,520 -11%
- $216,968$193,448 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.
- Buhl$1,015
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Buhl, AL fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buhl, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
The Census does not count Buhl on its own, so the figures here are Tuscaloosa County's. Half the county's households earn more than $66,231 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 61% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 39% 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 people in Tuscaloosa County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buhl lies in Tuscaloosa County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Across the county, people are younger on the whole than the country's typical resident, and household incomes sit below the national typical. Typical home values are well below the national figure, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than across the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, while shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employ a good number of people. Jobs across the county have dipped slightly over the past year, and unemployment has edged up over the same period.
Things to do. Bryant–Denny Stadium, the football ground of the University of Alabama, is a longer drive away and fills with crowds on game days. Moundville Archaeological Site, also a longer drive away, preserves the remains of a large settlement built by Native American peoples long ago. Lake Lurleen State Park, a short drive away, is a protected area by Lake Lurleen, suited to quiet days outdoors.
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- 90,052households
- 32.8median age
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 7%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 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 73°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tuscaloosa Acfd weather station, 8 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. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Tuscaloosa County, 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.
Buhl home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buhl$193,448
- 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.
- Buhl7
Zip codes with a Buhl address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buhl — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.