Pell City, Alabama.
Typical home $289,193 (+3.8% in a year), asking rent $1,410 . Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$741 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,608 +4%
- $278,585$289,193 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,294 +14%
- $253,898$289,193 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.
- Pell City$1,518
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Pell City, AL rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pell City, St. Clair County, Alabama
Pell City is a city of 12,939 people in St. Clair County. Half its households earn more than $68,638 a year and half less, against $77,463 across St. Clair County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in St. Clair County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pell City is a small city in St. Clair County, Alabama, where residents are somewhat older than in many American towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's. More people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place where so many own their homes. Winters are mild and short, while summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a large part of the town. Among the biggest workplaces in Pell City are Pell City Schools, Benjamin Moore & Co, which makes architectural coatings, and St. Vincent's St. Clair, a general hospital. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, though a few people work from home.
Things to do. Logan Martin Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Talladega National Forest, a protected area of woods and trails, and to Talladega Superspeedway, a race track. The International Motorsports Hall of Fame, a museum, is also a longer drive away and suits those with an interest in racing.
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- 5,157households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Clair County had 22,380 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more 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, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pell City
- Pell City SchoolsSchool district424FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- Benjamin Moore & CoArchitectural coatings manufacturing220
- The Ford Meter BoxFabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe206
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores178
- St. Vincents St. ClairGeneral hospital160FTE
- WKW North AmericaMotor vehicle metal parts stamping159
- Royal Foods CoProcessed meats manufacturing142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,244 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pell City’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 St. Clair County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Pell City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pell City$289,193
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Pell City listings, and the typical home goes pending in 53 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Pell City28.75%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pell City137
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pell City29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pell City$361,138
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Pell City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pell City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Pell City
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35125 | Pell City | 11,279 | $1,369 | $232,637 |
| 35128 | Pell City | 10,546 | $1,599 | $327,148 |
| 35054 | Cropwell | 4,593 | — | $424,921 |