Jasper, Alabama.
Typical home $199,710 (+4.1% in a year), asking rent $1,604 (-0.1%). Jasper, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$492 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,854 +4%
- $191,856$199,710 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,947 +12%
- $177,762$199,710 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.
- Jasper$1,048
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Jasper, AL rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Jasper, AL fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Jasper runs $299/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $433 in Sep 2024.
That is $1,306 a month against $1,604 rent: a $1,048 mortgage payment, plus $44 property tax and $214 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Jasper
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,306
- Renting$1,604
- Mortgage only$1,048
Property tax · $44/mo 0.26% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Walker County, AL
Insurance & upkeep · $214/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Jasper, Walker County, Alabama
Jasper is a city of 14,572 people in Walker County. Half its households earn more than $66,238 a year and half less, against $56,509 across Walker County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Walker County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Jasper is the city at the center of Walker County, and it is home to more people in their middle years than to either the very young or the very old. Incomes here are above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent. Winters are cool and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Jasper are Mar-Jac Poultry, Walker County Schools and Walker Baptist Medical Center. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, William B. Bankhead National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lewis Smith Lake is a reservoir that is also a longer drive away. Rickwood Caverns State Park, another protected area a longer drive away, is a good choice for a cooler day, and the rivers nearby, including the Sipsey Fork, offer quieter water.
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- 5,265households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walker County had 18,858 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jasper weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper
- Mar-Jac PoultryMeat products made from a combination of poultry and other meats893
- Walker County SchoolsSchool district848FTE
- Bevill State Community CollegeTwo-year college573
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters382
- Walker Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital353FTE
- Jasper City SchoolsSchool district318FTE
- Ridgeview Health ServicesHomes for the elderly with nursing care171
- Shadescrest Health Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,815 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jasper’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 Walker County and the Jasper, AL metro.
Jasper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jasper$199,710
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Jasper listings, and the typical home goes pending in 53 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Jasper23.88%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Jasper53
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jasper160
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jasper41
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Jasper$227,059
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Jasper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jasper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Jasper
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35504 | Jasper | 14,332 | — | $249,521 |
| 35501 | Jasper | 9,927 | $794 | $146,730 |
| 35503 | Jasper | 9,329 | — | $197,486 |