Coosada, Alabama.
Typical home $214,421 (+2.4% in a year). Montgomery, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$538 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,001 +2%
- $209,420$214,421 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,154 +18%
- $182,267$214,421 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.
- Coosada$1,125
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Coosada, AL rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coosada, Elmore County, Alabama
Coosada is a town of 1,217 people in Elmore County. Half its households earn more than $61,815 a year and half less, against $78,243 across Elmore County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Elmore County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Elmore County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coosada is a small town beside the Coosa River in Elmore County, Alabama. Nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners, far more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, since most people drive to jobs outside town. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Across Elmore County, the largest workplaces include Elmore County Schools, GKN Aerospace and Madix Inc - Eclectic. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Coosa River runs in or beside town, and the Tallapoosa River is a short drive away. Fort Toulouse, a historic fort, is also a short drive away. For a day out, the Montgomery Zoo is a short drive away, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is a longer drive.
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- 467households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Elmore County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Elmore County had 22,162 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montgomery Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Elmore County
- Elmore County SchoolsSchool district1,222FTE
- GKN AerospaceAirframe assemblies manufacturing547
- Madix Inc - EclecticStore display fixtures manufacturing535
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters396
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- Tallassee City SchoolsSchool district182FTE
- J F Ingram State Technical CollegeCareer school180
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores169
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,360 people in all across the county; Coosada has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of CoosadaRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coosada’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Elmore County and the Montgomery, AL metro.
Coosada home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coosada$214,421
- 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.
Zip codes with a Coosada address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coosada — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.