Reform, Alabama.
Typical home $123,419 (-2.3% in a year). Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$251 (+63%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,949 -2%
- $126,368$123,419 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,177 -3%
- $126,596$123,419 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.
- Reform$648
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Reform, AL fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Reform, Pickens County, Alabama
Reform is a town of 1,520 people in Pickens County. Unemployment in Pickens County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pickens County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Reform is a small town in Pickens County, in west Alabama, and it is home to a small community where most people live a quiet, rural life. Homes here are inexpensive, and household incomes across Pickens County run below the national picture. Winters are mild and short, with the coldest weather in January, while summers are long and hot, peaking in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Across Pickens County, the largest workplaces include Pickens County Schools, the federal prison system and Peco Foods' Gordo Hatchery. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and almost nobody works from home, so most people drive to a job, and the trip is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Several lakes and parks lie within a longer drive, including Lake Lurleen State Park, a protected area good for time on the water, and Lake Lowndes State Park. Lake Tuscaloosa is a large reservoir, also a longer drive away. For a day in the city, the Alabama Museum of Natural History is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 607households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Pickens County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pickens County had 3,681 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aliceville weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pickens County
- Pickens County SchoolsSchool district289FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice160
- Peco Foods Inc.- Gordo HatcheryChicken hatcheries150
- Lewis Brothers Lumber CoBlanks, wood, manufacturing95
- Traylor- Porter HealthSkilled nursing facilities77
- Noland Lumber CompanyCustom sawmills26
- Peco Foods Inc.- Gordo Feed MillGrain mills, animal feed25
- River Valley IngredientsOther animal food manufacturing21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 394 people in all across the county; Reform has one of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Reform’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 Pickens County and the Tuscaloosa, AL metro.
Reform home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Reform$123,419
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Reform listings — 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Reform19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Reform5
Zip codes with a Reform address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Reform — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.