Hamilton, Alabama.
Typical home $171,731 (+1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$449 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,385 +1%
- $169,346$171,731 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,871 +23%
- $139,860$171,731 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.
- Hamilton$901
- 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 Hamilton, AL rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamilton, Marion County, Alabama
Hamilton is a city of 7,042 people in Marion County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamilton is a small city in Marion County, Alabama, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical home is worth more than a household in the county earns in a year. Residents tend to be older than in most of the country, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care employ more local residents than any other line of work, followed by manufacturing, the building trades, and transport and warehousing. Among the largest workplaces in Hamilton are Marion County Schools, Clayton, which makes manufactured homes, and Walmart. The usual trip to work is a short drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spots are all a longer drive away. Dismals Canyon and Natural Bridge Park are protected areas for walking and sightseeing, and the Buttahatchee River is the best known of the area's waterways. Cedar Creek Reservoir is another place to head for time by the water.
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- 2,577households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 10,057 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamilton South weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hamilton
- Hamilton HomebuilderIndustrial building construction, general contractors380
- Marion County SchoolsSchool district338FTE
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing265
- Hamilton Home BuildersMobile home manufacturing250
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters211
- NTN-BowerBearings, ball and roller, manufacturing198
- Marion Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital115FTE
- HamiltonMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,620 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamilton’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 Marion County.
Hamilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamilton$171,731
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hamilton 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.
- Hamilton19.79%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hamilton46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hamilton5
Zip codes with a Hamilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.