Riverside, Alabama.
Typical home $321,713 (+4.5% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$850 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,819 +4%
- $307,894$321,713 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,673 +19%
- $271,040$321,713 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.
- Riverside$1,689
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Riverside, AL rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverside, St. Clair County, Alabama
Riverside is a city of 2,227 people in St. Clair County. Half its households earn more than $83,664 a year and half less, against $77,463 across St. Clair County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riverside is a small city in St. Clair County, Alabama, where most homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run above the county's, and typical home values are well above what many small Alabama towns see. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Across St. Clair County, some of the largest workplaces are St Clair County Schools, Pell City Schools and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Motorsports are the nearest draw: the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, a museum, and Talladega Superspeedway, a race track, are both a short drive away. For time outdoors, Talladega National Forest, a protected area, and Logan Martin Lake, a reservoir, are each a longer drive away.
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- 783households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%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, 9 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; Riverside 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Riverside’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.
Riverside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverside$321,713
- 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.
- Riverside10
Zip codes with a Riverside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.