Locust Fork, Alabama.
Typical home $228,346 (+0.7% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$529 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,665 +1%
- $226,681$228,346 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,336 +7%
- $213,010$228,346 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.
- Locust Fork$1,199
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 50 years.
Typical home values in Locust Fork, AL rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Locust Fork, Blount County, Alabama
Locust Fork is a town of 1,192 people in Blount County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Locust Fork is a small town in Blount County, Alabama, and nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is more common here than a typical American town might see, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, with snow rare, summers run hot, and rain falls generously through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in banks, insurance and property, and in professional and business services. Across Blount County, some of the largest workplaces are Blount County Schools, Tyson Farms and Walmart. The typical commute is a long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Little Warrior River is a short drive away and is the closest place for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Rickwood Caverns State Park, a protected area, and to Barber Motorsports Park, a race track. Birmingham's Sloss Furnaces, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 530households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 6%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 54° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pinson weather station, 13 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; Locust Fork 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
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Locust Fork’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.
Locust Fork home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Locust Fork$228,346
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Locust Fork address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Locust Fork — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.