Snead, Alabama.
Typical home $220,594 (+2.8% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$570 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,980 +3%
- $214,614$220,594 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,176 +12%
- $196,418$220,594 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.
- Snead$1,158
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Snead, AL rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Snead, Blount County, Alabama
Snead is a town of 1,032 people in Blount County. Half its households earn more than $48,509 a year and half less, against $64,190 across Blount County. 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 people in Blount County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Snead is a small town in Blount County, Alabama, with a small population. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is valued modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, which says that many residents travel some distance for work. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. The year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Blount County, some of the largest workplaces are Blount County Schools, Tyson Farms and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is low, though a little higher than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Calvert Prong Little Warrior River is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Guntersville Lake, a large reservoir, and to Lake Guntersville State Park, a protected area beside it. Noccalula Falls Park, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 510households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 41 mintypical commute
What people in Blount County 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, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blount County
- Blount County SchoolsSchool district927FTE
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing663
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters277
- TLC Nursing CenterNursing homes123
- St. Vincents BlountCritical access hospital117FTE
- Oneonta City SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- Diversicare of OneontaNursing homes96
- LKQMotor vehicle parts, used, merchant wholesalers61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,958 people in all across the county; Snead has one of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Snead’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 Blount County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Snead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Snead$220,594
- 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.
- Snead8
Zip codes with a Snead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Snead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.