Clanton, Alabama.
Typical home $223,028 (+5.8% in a year), asking rent $1,318 (+1.9%). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$624 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,175 +6%
- $210,854$223,028 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,069 +21%
- $183,960$223,028 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.
- Clanton$1,171
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Clanton, AL rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Clanton, AL rose 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Clanton runs $153/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $1,471 a month against $1,318 rent: a $1,171 mortgage payment, plus $62 property tax and $239 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Clanton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,471
- Renting$1,318
- Mortgage only$1,171
Property tax · $62/mo 0.33% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Chilton County, AL
Insurance & upkeep · $239/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Clanton, Chilton County, Alabama
Clanton is a city of 8,768 people in Chilton County. Half its households earn more than $47,520 a year and half less, against $65,603 across Chilton County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Chilton County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Clanton is the city at the center of Chilton County, Alabama, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes here run well below the county's as a whole, and rents and home values sit in the middle of what people in smaller Southern cities often pay. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the population is neither especially young nor especially old.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Clanton are Chilton County Schools, Adient and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, though the county has also added jobs, and the typical commute is a moderate one with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Lay Lake and Jordan Lake, both reservoirs, are a longer drive away and give room for time on the water. Paul M. Grist State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. For a look at local history, the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum is a longer drive away as well. Winters are cool and summers hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
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- 3,774households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chilton County had 9,431 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clanton Northeast weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clanton
- Chilton County SchoolsSchool district782FTE
- AdientAutomobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing690
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters320
- Foodservice Alabama300
- St. Vincent's Chilton CountyHealthcare191
- St. Vincents ChiltonGeneral hospital110FTE
- Hatley Health CareSkilled nursing facilities101
- Mckinnon MotorsAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,861 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clanton’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 Chilton County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Clanton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clanton$223,028
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Clanton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 66 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.
- Clanton21.12%
- 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.
- Clanton125
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clanton26
Zip codes with a Clanton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clanton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Clanton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35045 | Clanton | 15,324 | $1,318 | $213,537 |
| 35046 | Clanton | 5,160 | — | $249,837 |