Fosters, Alabama.
Typical home $240,903 (-1.4% in a year). Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$553 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,356 -1%
- $244,258$240,903 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,479 +3%
- $233,423$240,903 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.
- Fosters$1,264
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Fosters, AL fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fosters, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
The Census does not count Fosters on its own, so the figures here are Tuscaloosa County's. Half the county's households earn more than $66,231 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 61% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Tuscaloosa County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tuscaloosa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fosters is a town in Tuscaloosa County, in Alabama. Winters there are mild, with little or no snow, while summers are hot. The area gets plenty of rain across the year, with the most falling as the year goes on.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employ many people. Across the county, jobs have slipped slightly over the past year, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Moundville Archaeological Site, a short drive away, preserves the remains of an ancient Native American center with earthen mounds. Bryant–Denny Stadium, a longer drive away, is the University of Alabama's football stadium and one of the best known venues in the state. The Alabama Museum of Natural History, also a longer drive away, is a museum of the region's natural past.
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- 90,052households
- 32.8median age
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Tuscaloosa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tuscaloosa County had 98,620 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 73°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tuscaloosa Acfd weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tuscaloosa County
- The University of AlabamaUniversity or college7,472
- Mercedes Benz US. InternationalLight utility trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture6,029
- DCH Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,252FTE
- Tuscaloosa County SchoolsSchool district1,851FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,176
- Tuscaloosa City SchoolsSchool district1,162FTE
- Lear Corporation - TuscaloosaAutomotive supplier803
- Bryce HospitalPsychiatric hospital705FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 136 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 22,477 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Tuscaloosa 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 Tuscaloosa County and the Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
Fosters home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fosters$240,903
- 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.
- Fosters8
Zip codes with a Fosters address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fosters — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.