Springville, Alabama.
Typical home $329,751 (+2.7% in a year), asking rent $1,602 . Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$860 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,623 +3%
- $321,128$329,751 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,164 +16%
- $283,587$329,751 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.
- Springville$1,731
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Springville, AL rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springville, St. Clair County, Alabama
Springville is a city of 4,786 people in St. Clair County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springville is a small Alabama city where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and far more households do so than is typical across the country. Poverty is low here, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers run hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Across St. Clair County, some of the largest workplaces are St Clair County Schools, Pell City Schools and Unipres Alabama. The typical commute is a long one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Close to home, the Cahaba River is a short drive away for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Rickwood Caverns State Park, a protected area, and to the Birmingham Zoo. Those who like racing can head to Barber Motorsports Park, a race track, also a longer drive away.
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- 2,066households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 18%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 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pinson weather station, 12 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; Springville has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively 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 Springville’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 St. Clair County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Springville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springville$329,751
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Springville 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.
- Springville23.50%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Springville96
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Springville18
Zip codes with a Springville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.