Ragland, Alabama.
Typical home $187,543 (+6.3% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$423 (+75%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,118 +6%
- $176,424$187,543 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $536 -0%
- $188,079$187,543 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.
- Ragland$984
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ragland, AL rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ragland, St. Clair County, Alabama
Ragland is a town of 1,693 people in St. Clair County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% 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 manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ragland is a small town in St. Clair County, Alabama, where most homes are lived in by their owners and residents are younger than in many American towns. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest days in January staying cool rather than harsh, while summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow come in generous amounts over the course of a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in the building trades. Across St. Clair County, the largest workplaces include St Clair County Schools, Pell City Schools and Walmart. Commutes are fairly long, almost no one works from home, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Janney Furnace Park, a garden, and Neely Henry Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Talladega National Forest is a protected area of woodland, and Talladega Superspeedway is a race track, each a longer drive away.
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- 647households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 1%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, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Clair County
- St Clair County SchoolsSchool district818FTE
- Pell City SchoolsSchool district424FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters328
- Unipres AlabamaCar bodies, kit, manufacturing323
- Meyer Utility StructuresFabricated structural metal manufacturing309
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Benjamin Moore & CoArchitectural coatings manufacturing220
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,057 people in all across the county; Ragland has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ragland’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.
Ragland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ragland$187,543
- 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.
- Ragland8
Zip codes with a Ragland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ragland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.