Munford, Alabama.
Typical home $187,267 (+1.4% in a year). Talladega-Sylacauga, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$533 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,559 +1%
- $184,708$187,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,509 +16%
- $161,758$187,267 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.
- Munford$983
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Munford, AL rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Munford, Talladega County, Alabama
Munford is a town of 1,351 people in Talladega County. Half its households earn more than $42,284 a year and half less, against $57,776 across Talladega County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Talladega County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Talladega County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Munford is a small town in Talladega County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a much higher rate than most places. The population is older than the typical American town's, and household incomes run well below the county's. A four-year degree is less common among adults here than elsewhere, and a typical home costs less than the national norm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Talladega County, some of the largest workplaces are Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, Talladega County Schools and Coosa Valley Medical Center. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Racing fans have Talladega Superspeedway and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, a race track and a museum both a short drive away. For time outdoors, Cheaha State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the Talladega National Forest is close by as well. Winters are mild and cool, with January highs a bit above freezing, while July is hot, and rain or melted snow falls steadily through the year.
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- 671households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Talladega County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Talladega County had 31,617 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Talladega Nne weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Talladega County
- Honda Development & Manufacturing of America (HDMA)Assembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture5,921
- New South ExpressGeneral warehousing and storage1,308
- Talladega County SchoolsSchool district739FTE
- Nemak AlabamaAluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing531
- AS - Bridgewater Interiors IIIMotor vehicle seats manufacturing400
- Coosa Valley Medical CenterGeneral hospital395FTE
- KronospanChipboard, manufacturing392
- Blue Bell CreameriesIce cream manufacturing373
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 76 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,861 people in all across the county; Munford 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Munford’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 Talladega County and the Talladega-Sylacauga, AL metro.
Munford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Munford$187,267
- 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.
- Munford8
Zip codes with a Munford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Munford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.