Hayden, Alabama.
Typical home $247,511 (+1.3% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$667 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,265 +1%
- $244,246$247,511 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,835 +19%
- $208,676$247,511 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.
- Hayden$1,299
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Hayden, AL rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Hayden, Blount County, Alabama
Hayden is a town of 1,342 people in Blount County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Blount County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hayden is a small town in Blount County, Alabama, and nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild and short, with only a dusting of snow in most years, and summers run hot. Rain and melted snow fall generously through the year. Adults here tend to hold a four-year degree less often than people in many other places, and the typical commute is a long one.
Work. Residents of Hayden work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels. Across Blount County, the largest workplaces include Blount County Schools, Tyson Farms and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is low, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Rickwood Caverns State Park offers a protected area to explore, and the Little Warrior River is close by for time on the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Barber Motorsports Park, a race track, and to the Birmingham Museum of Art.
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- 539households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Blount County had 9,229 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more 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, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blount County
- Blount County SchoolsSchool district927FTE
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing663
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters277
- TLC Nursing CenterNursing homes123
- St. Vincents BlountCritical access hospital117FTE
- Oneonta City SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- Diversicare of OneontaNursing homes96
- LKQMotor vehicle parts, used, merchant wholesalers61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,958 people in all across the county; Hayden has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hayden’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 Blount County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Hayden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hayden$247,511
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hayden 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.
- Hayden23.65%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hayden44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hayden16
Zip codes with a Hayden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hayden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.