Cleveland, Alabama.
Typical home $196,709 (+2.7% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$491 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,172 +3%
- $191,536$196,709 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,177 +8%
- $181,531$196,709 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.
- Cleveland$1,032
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Cleveland, AL rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cleveland, Blount County, Alabama
Cleveland is a town of 1,245 people in Blount County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Blount County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cleveland is a small town in Blount County, Alabama, where most homes are lived in by their owners and relatively few households live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, with only a small number of people working from home. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Blount County, the largest workplaces include Blount County Schools, Tyson Farms and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year earlier, though the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. The Little Warrior River and the Broglen River are both a short drive away, and are good places to spend time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Rickwood Caverns State Park, a protected area, and to Horse Pens 40, a park.
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- 429households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Blount County had 9,229 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oneonta weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blount County
- Blount County SchoolsSchool district927FTE
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing663
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters277
- TLC Nursing CenterNursing homes123
- St. Vincents BlountCritical access hospital117FTE
- Oneonta City SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- Diversicare of OneontaNursing homes96
- LKQMotor vehicle parts, used, merchant wholesalers61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,958 people in all across the county; Cleveland has none 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cleveland’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 Blount County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Cleveland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cleveland$196,709
- 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.
- Cleveland5
Zip codes with a Cleveland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cleveland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.