Sumiton, Alabama.
Typical home $163,884 (-3.8% in a year). Jasper, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$414 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,490 -4%
- $170,375$163,884 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,526 +5%
- $155,359$163,884 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.
- Sumiton$860
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 65 years.
Typical home values in Sumiton, AL fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sumiton, Walker County, Alabama
Sumiton is a city of 2,444 people in Walker County. Half its households earn more than $65,568 a year and half less, against $56,509 across Walker County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Walker County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sumiton is a small city in Walker County, Alabama, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, though a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people drive a fair distance to get to work.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, transport and warehousing, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Walker County, some of the largest workplaces are Mar-Jac Poultry, Walker County Schools and Walker Baptist Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Sipsey Fork, a river a short drive away, is the closest of the nearby outdoor places. Farther afield, Lewis Smith Lake is a reservoir for time on the water, and the Birmingham Zoo is a longer drive away. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
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- 1,063households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walker County had 18,858 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jasper weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walker County
- Mar-Jac PoultryMeat products made from a combination of poultry and other meats893
- Walker County SchoolsSchool district848FTE
- Bevill State Community CollegeTwo-year college573
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters382
- Walker Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital353FTE
- Jasper City SchoolsSchool district318FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters265
- Walker Rehabilitation CenterNursing homes175
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,630 people in all across the county; Sumiton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of SumitonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sumiton’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 Walker County and the Jasper, AL metro.
Sumiton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sumiton$163,884
- 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.
- Sumiton12
Zip codes with a Sumiton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sumiton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.