Steele, Alabama.
Typical home $217,307 (+5.7% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$537 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,745 +6%
- $205,562$217,307 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,363 +9%
- $198,944$217,307 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.
- Steele$1,141
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Steele, AL rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Steele, St. Clair County, Alabama
Steele is a town of 992 people in St. Clair County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% 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 people in St. Clair 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Steele is a small town in St. Clair County, Alabama, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Fewer residents hold a four-year degree than in many places, and fewer than you might expect are living below the poverty line. Winters are mild and mostly snow-free, summers run hot, and the rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops and the building trades. In town, Meyer Utility Structures, which makes fabricated structural metal, and Rain Bird Corporation Steele, a warehousing and storage operation, are among the largest workplaces. The typical commute is a long one, so many people spend a good part of the day travelling to their jobs, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. Horse Pens 40 is a park a short drive away, and it is the easiest outing from town. A longer drive brings you to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, a museum, and to Talladega Superspeedway, a race track. Also a longer drive away, Noccalula Falls Park offers botanical gardens to walk through.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in St. Clair County 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 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gadsden weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Steele
- Meyer Utility StructuresFabricated structural metal manufacturing309
- Rain Bird Corporation SteeleGeneral warehousing and storage165
- Net ConnectionSafety net system, erecting and dismantling at construction site37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 511 people in all. 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
- DroughtRelatively 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 Steele’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.
Steele home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Steele$217,307
- 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.
Zip codes with a Steele address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Steele — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.