Oneonta, Alabama.
Typical home $216,369 (+1.8% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$546 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,923 +2%
- $212,446$216,369 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,206 +12%
- $193,164$216,369 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.
- Oneonta$1,136
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Oneonta, AL rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama
Oneonta is a city of 6,938 people in Blount County. Half its households earn more than $53,980 a year and half less, against $64,190 across Blount County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oneonta is a small city and the seat of Blount County, and the people who live here tend to be older than in the typical American community. Incomes run below the county's as a whole, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and the building trades also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Oneonta include Blount County Schools, Walmart and St. Vincents Blount, a critical access hospital. Unemployment across Blount County is somewhat higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs, and the typical commute is a long one for a place this size.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Little Warrior River offers a quiet stretch of water close to home. Farther afield, Rickwood Caverns State Park is a protected area built around its caves, and Barber Motorsports Park is a race track. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year, so outings are easiest in the milder seasons.
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- 2,730households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 30 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 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oneonta weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oneonta
- Blount County SchoolsSchool district927FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters277
- TLC Nursing CenterNursing homes123
- St. Vincents BlountCritical access hospital117FTE
- Oneonta City SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- Diversicare of OneontaNursing homes96
- Jones Valley Fabrication - Plant 1Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing51
- Art Iron WorksStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 932 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oneonta’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 Blount County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Oneonta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oneonta$216,369
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Oneonta listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Oneonta29.01%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oneonta52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oneonta12
Zip codes with a Oneonta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oneonta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.