Good Hope, Alabama.
Typical home $233,049 (+3.2% in a year). Cullman, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$651 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,158 +3%
- $225,891$233,049 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,753 +22%
- $190,297$233,049 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.
- Good Hope$1,223
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Good Hope, AL rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Good Hope, Cullman County, Alabama
Good Hope is a city of 2,483 people in Cullman County. Half its households earn more than $93,661 a year and half less, against $62,656 across Cullman County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Good Hope is a small city in Cullman County, Alabama, with a younger population than much of the country. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and typical home values sit at a level that many buyers in this part of Alabama would find comfortable. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people who work commute a moderate distance rather than working from home. Winters are cool but mild compared with much of the country, with January the coldest month and nights that dip to around freezing. Snow is rare, summers are warm, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, or in other service jobs. Across Cullman County, some of the largest workplaces are R.E. Garrison Trucking, Cullman Regional, and Cullman County Schools. Unemployment in the county is low, and the number of jobs has been roughly steady from one year to the next.
Things to do. The Cullman County Museum is a short drive away and is the closest of the places nearby. Farther out, Rickwood Caverns State Park is a protected area built around its caves, and William B. Bankhead National Forest offers wooded country for walking and time outdoors. Lewis Smith Lake, a large reservoir, is also a longer drive away and suits a day by the water.
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- 829households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents 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 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hanceville weather station, 5 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 across the county; Good Hope has one of its own. 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 wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Good Hope’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Good Hope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Good Hope$233,049
- 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.
- Good Hope16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Good Hope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Good Hope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.