Hokes Bluff, Alabama.
Typical home $220,072 (+5.1% in a year). Gadsden, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$642 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,617 +5%
- $209,454$220,072 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,784 +29%
- $170,287$220,072 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.
- Hokes Bluff$1,155
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hokes Bluff, AL rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hokes Bluff, Etowah County, Alabama
Hokes Bluff is a city of 4,446 people in Etowah County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% 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 people in Etowah 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hokes Bluff is a small city in Etowah County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, a good deal more than across the county as a whole. Poverty is uncommon here, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than hold only a high school education or some college. Winters are mild and mostly free of snow, summers run hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces across Etowah County are Koch Foods' Gadsden processing plant, Etowah County Schools and Gadsden Regional Medical Center. The drive to work is a long one for many people, and very few work from home. Joblessness in the county has crept up a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. A short drive away, Mort Glosser Amphitheater is a theatre for live performances, and Noccalula Falls Park is a botanical garden and a good place for a walk. Farther afield, Weiss Lake is a large reservoir for boating and fishing, and Freedom Riders National Monument is a protected site marking a landmark of the civil rights era.
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- 1,856households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Etowah County 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Etowah County
- Koch Foods Gadsden Processing PlantChickens, slaughtering and dressing1,189
- Etowah County SchoolsSchool district1,089FTE
- Gadsden Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital804FTE
- Gadsden State Community CollegeTwo-year college577
- Riverview Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital572FTE
- Gadsden City SchoolsSchool district531FTE
- Keystone FoodsPoultry processing509
- Fehrer AutomotiveMotor vehicle trimmings manufacturing399
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 70 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,886 people in all across the county; Hokes Bluff has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hokes Bluff’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 Etowah County and the Gadsden, AL metro.
Hokes Bluff home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hokes Bluff$220,072
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hokes Bluff 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.
- Hokes Bluff24.36%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hokes Bluff28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hokes Bluff7
Zip codes with a Hokes Bluff address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hokes Bluff — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.