Grant, Alabama.
Typical home $277,470 (+2.8% in a year). Albertville, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$803 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,476 +3%
- $269,994$277,470 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,037 +21%
- $228,433$277,470 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.
- Grant$1,456
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Grant, AL rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grant, Marshall County, Alabama
Grant is a town of 1,039 people in Marshall County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Marshall County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marshall County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grant is a very small town in Marshall County, Alabama, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Typical home values here are well above what the county's household incomes would suggest, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many American towns. Winters are cold but not severe, with January highs near the middle of the range for the Southeast, summers turn hot in August, and rain and melted snow fall generously through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Marshall County, the largest workplaces include Pilgrim's Guntersville Plant, Marshall Medical Centers South and Tyson Chicken. Commutes are on the long side, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Guntersville Lake, a reservoir, and Lake Guntersville State Park are both a short drive away, as is Cathedral Caverns State Park, a protected area built around a large cave. For a longer outing, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, a museum, is a longer drive away. South Sauty Creek, a river nearby, is another option close to home.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Marshall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 41,043 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Owens Cross Roads 3S weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- Farm Fresh FoodsCutting of purchased carcasses merchant wholesalers1,625
- Pilgrim's Guntersville PlantPoultry processing1,619
- Marshall Medical Centers SouthGeneral hospital1,361FTE
- Tyson ChickenPoultry processing953
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing910
- Alatrade Foods Inc - AlbertvillePoultry processing825
- Marshall County SchoolsSchool district644FTE
- Alatrade Foods Inc - BoazPoultry processing570
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 89 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,789 people in all across the county; Grant has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Grant’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 Marshall County and the Albertville, AL metro.
Grant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grant$277,470
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Grant listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Grant23.68%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Grant38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grant9
Zip codes with a Grant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.