Crane Hill, Alabama.
Typical home $535,746 (+4.6% in a year). Cullman, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,646 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,738 +5%
- $512,008$535,746 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,862 +27%
- $420,884$535,746 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.
- Crane Hill$2,812
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Crane Hill, AL rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crane Hill, Cullman County, Alabama
The Census does not count Crane Hill on its own, so the figures here are Cullman County's. Half the county's households earn more than $62,656 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Cullman County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cullman 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crane Hill sits in Cullman County in the northern part of Alabama, a region of rolling land and small towns in the South. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and many residents know one another well. The county's population is middle-aged, and the town has the quiet pace of a place where families have often stayed for generations. Summers are hot and rainfall is plentiful, while winters are cool with little or no snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Unemployment has risen a little over the past year, and job numbers have eased slightly, though the county remains an active working place. A typical commute is a fair drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lewis Smith Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and suits anyone who enjoys open water. The William B. Bankhead National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away and offers a quieter outing among the trees. The Cullman County Museum, also a longer drive away, is a good place to learn about the county's history.
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- 35,347households
- 40.8median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Cullman County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cullman County had 31,028 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 61 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Addison weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cullman County
- R.E. Garrison TruckingMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload1,396
- Cullman RegionalGeneral hospital1,104FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage954
- Cullman County SchoolsSchool district941FTE
- George C Wallace State Community College-HancevilleTwo-year college539
- REHAU AutomotivePlastics automotive440
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters433
- Rusken PackagingBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard430
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 61 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,637 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Cullman 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 Cullman County and the Cullman, AL metro.
Crane Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crane Hill$535,746
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Crane Hill listings — 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.
- Crane Hill23.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Crane Hill110
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Crane Hill14
Zip codes with a Crane Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crane Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.