Chalkville, Alabama.
Typical home $200,509 (-0.6% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$513 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,269 -1%
- $201,778$200,509 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,096 +12%
- $179,412$200,509 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.
- Chalkville$1,052
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Chalkville, AL fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chalkville, Jefferson County, Alabama
The Census does not count Chalkville on its own, so the figures here are Jefferson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $66,388 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 64% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chalkville sits in Jefferson County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical home value is high, and where residents are older on average than the state's young cities. Winters bring cold, and January is the coldest month, though snow is rare. Summers are hot, and rain falls often across the year, so the county's green, wet seasons are a steady feature of daily life. Many adults here hold a degree, and a meaningful share of households live below the poverty line.
Work. Across Jefferson County, unemployment has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has edged up. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Few people work from home, so most daily life revolves around commutes to a workplace.
Things to do. The Birmingham Zoo is a zoo a short drive away, and the Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum a short drive away. The Birmingham Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden also a short drive away, offers a quiet place to walk among plants.
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- 269,883households
- 37.7median age
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 368,875 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Birmingham Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- University of Alabama HospitalGeneral hospital11,411FTE
- UA Health Services FoundationCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient5,637
- THE Children's Hospital of AlabamaChildren's hospital4,552FTE
- Brasfield & Gorrie Corporate OfficeCommercial building construction4,447
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,660
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district3,404FTE
- Southern Foodservice ManagementCafeteria food services contractors2,670
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,665
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 623 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 101,368 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jefferson County, 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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Chalkville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chalkville$200,509
- 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.
- Chalkville7
Zip codes with a Chalkville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chalkville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.