Equality, Alabama.
Typical home $677,596 (+10.7% in a year). Alexander City, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,222 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $65,582 +11%
- $612,014$677,596 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $225,929 +50%
- $451,667$677,596 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.
- Equality$3,557
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Equality, AL rose 10.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Equality, Coosa County, Alabama
Equality, in Coosa County, had 150 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Coosa County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Coosa County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Equality is a very small community in Coosa County, Alabama, home to only a few people compared with most towns. Winters are mild and cool, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July. Rain is plentiful through the year, more than in many parts of the country. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes would suggest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Coosa County, some of the largest workplaces are Madix Inc. in Goodwater, which makes store display fixtures, Coosa County Schools, and Goodwater Healthcare Center. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Lake Martin is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Wind Creek State Park is a protected area on the same kind of drive. History-minded visitors can go to Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, an archaeological site that is also a longer drive from town.
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What people in Coosa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coosa County had 1,456 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rockford Ese weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coosa County
- Madix Inc. - GoodwaterStore display fixtures manufacturing456
- Coosa County SchoolsSchool district94FTE
- Goodwater Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facility89
- Wingfield Engineering CoZinc foil and leaf not made in rolling mills59
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 604 people in all across the county; Equality has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Equality’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 Coosa County and the Alexander City, AL metro.
Equality home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Equality$677,596
- 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.
- Equality11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Equality4
Zip codes with a Equality address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Equality — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.