Lipscomb, Alabama.
Typical home $64,439 (+13.8% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$192 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,837 +14%
- $56,603$64,439 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,467 +13%
- $56,972$64,439 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.
- Lipscomb$338
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Lipscomb, AL rose 13.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lipscomb, Jefferson County, Alabama
Lipscomb is a city of 2,086 people in Jefferson County. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lipscomb is a small city in Jefferson County, Alabama, just west of Birmingham. Homes here are modestly priced, well below what a typical household in the wider county would expect to pay. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow in a typical year, and summers run hot and rainy.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest employers are the University of Alabama Hospital, Children's Hospital of Alabama and Jefferson County Schools. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and the commute is a moderate one for most people who drive to work.
Things to do. Birmingham is a short drive away and offers most of the nearby outings. The Birmingham Zoo and the Birmingham Museum of Art are both close, and Red Mountain Park is a short drive for a walk outdoors. Barber Motorsports Park, a race track, is a longer drive.
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- 761households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 368,875 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bessemer Wsw weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- University of Alabama HospitalGeneral hospital11,411FTE
- UA Health Services FoundationCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient5,637
- THE Children's Hospital of AlabamaChildren's hospital4,552FTE
- Brasfield & Gorrie Corporate OfficeCommercial building construction4,447
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,660
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district3,404FTE
- Southern Foodservice ManagementCafeteria food services contractors2,670
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,665
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 623 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 101,368 people in all across the county; Lipscomb has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Lipscomb’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Lipscomb home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lipscomb$64,439
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lipscomb7
Zip codes with a Lipscomb address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lipscomb — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.