Glencoe, Alabama.
Typical home $212,923 (+4.9% in a year). Gadsden, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$623 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,943 +5%
- $202,980$212,923 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,635 +26%
- $169,287$212,923 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.
- Glencoe$1,118
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Glencoe, AL rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glencoe, Etowah County, Alabama
Glencoe is a city of 5,372 people in Etowah County. Half its households earn more than $68,517 a year and half less, against $54,563 across Etowah County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Etowah County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glencoe is a small city in Etowah County where most homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and other services also employing a good number. Within Glencoe itself, some of the largest workplaces are Venza Care, a skilled nursing facility, and Clean Earth of Alabama, which treats hazardous waste. Most people drive a fair way to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Noccalula Falls Park, a botanical garden, and the Mort Glosser Amphitheater, a theatre, are both a short drive away. Farther out, a longer drive brings you to Weiss Lake, a reservoir popular for time on the water, and to Talladega Superspeedway, a race track and one of the best known in the country.
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- 1,996households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Etowah County had 33,095 jobs in 2025, 0.3% 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 71°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gadsden weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glencoe
- Venza CareSkilled nursing facilities100
- Clean Earth of AlabamaHazardous waste treatment facilities87
- Vulcan Materials Asphalt & Construction, LLC - AL - Asphalt & ConstructionPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction76
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 263 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold 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 in Glencoe’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 Etowah County and the Gadsden, AL metro.
Glencoe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glencoe$212,923
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Glencoe listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Glencoe24.34%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glencoe23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glencoe5
Zip codes with a Glencoe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glencoe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.