Mount Olive, Alabama.
Typical home $264,895 (+2.6% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$716 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,749 +3%
- $258,147$264,895 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,932 +23%
- $215,963$264,895 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.
- Mount Olive$1,390
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Mount Olive, AL rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Olive, Jefferson County, Alabama
Mount Olive, in Jefferson County, had 4,427 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $82,234 a year and half less, against $66,388 across Jefferson County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 26 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Olive is a small Alabama town in Jefferson County, with a population that skews a little younger than older. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's. Winters are mild and rarely see snow, summers are hot, and rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, banking and insurance, and retail also employing many. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Alabama Hospital, Children's Hospital of Alabama and Jefferson County Schools. The commute is moderate, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Birmingham is a longer drive away, and its best known attractions are there. Legion Field is a stadium, the Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum, and Barber Motorsports Park is a race track. Each of them is a longer drive from town.
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- 1,379households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents 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 54° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Birmingham Airport weather station, 10 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; Mount Olive has one 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 high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of Mount OliveRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Mount Olive’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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Mount Olive home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Olive$264,895
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mount Olive 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.
- Mount Olive31.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Olive36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Olive10
Zip codes with a Mount Olive address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Olive — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.