Montevallo, Alabama.
Typical home $249,932 (+4.0% in a year), asking rent $1,880 . Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$657 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,645 +4%
- $240,287$249,932 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,078 +14%
- $218,854$249,932 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.
- Montevallo$1,312
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Montevallo, AL rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Montevallo, Shelby County, Alabama
Montevallo is a city of 7,229 people in Shelby County. Half its households earn more than $56,626 a year and half less, against $97,961 across Shelby County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Shelby County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Montevallo is a small city in Shelby County, and it is a young place, with residents who are much younger than in most American towns. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect next door to the county's wealthier suburbs. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good number of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Montevallo are Woodgrain Millworks, which supplies millwork, Compass Group, and Central Machine and Fabrication, a machine shop. Commutes are of moderate length, and some people work from home. Unemployment across Shelby County has edged up a little over the past year, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did.
Things to do. Close to town, the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum and the Aldrich Coal Mine Museum are both a short drive away and tell stories of the region's railroads and mining past. A longer drive brings you to Oak Mountain State Park, a large protected area for walking and time outdoors. The Birmingham Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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- 2,499households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 84,778 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alabaster Shelby County Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montevallo
- Woodgrain Millworks: MontevalloMillwork merchant wholesalers58
- Compass Group38
- Central Machine and FabricationMachine shops31
- MontevalloMail and parcel delivery24
- Tractor Supply Company StoreGeneral merchandise stores21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 172 people in all. 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 high
- LightningRelatively 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 Montevallo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Shelby County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Montevallo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Montevallo$249,932
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Montevallo listings — 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.
- Montevallo22.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Montevallo67
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Montevallo13
Zip codes with a Montevallo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Montevallo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.