Tarrant, Alabama.
Typical home $75,123 (+1.0% in a year), asking rent $1,094 . Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$198 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $707 +1%
- $74,415$75,123 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $457 -1%
- $75,580$75,123 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.
- Tarrant$394
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Tarrant, AL rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tarrant, Jefferson County, Alabama
Tarrant is a city of 6,124 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $42,070 a year and half less, against $66,388 across Jefferson County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 39% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 61% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tarrant is a small city in Jefferson County, on the edge of the Birmingham area. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical, while homes are priced modestly and a good share of households rent rather than own. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Some of the largest workplaces in Tarrant are Thompson Tractor Company, Tarrant City Schools and Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people drive some distance to work, with only a few working from home.
Things to do. The Southern Museum of Flight is in or beside town, a museum for anyone curious about aviation. A short drive away are the Birmingham Zoo and the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Birmingham Botanical Gardens offer a quieter outing among the plantings.
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- 2,609households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 368,875 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Birmingham Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tarrant
- Thompson Tractor CompanyEquipment sales service and repair1,786
- Tarrant City SchoolsSchool district158FTE
- WM of Alabama - Birmingham108
- Cowin Equipment Company of BirminghamConstruction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers105
- Clean Earth Environmental SolutionsHazardous waste material treatment facilities48
- Tuscaloosa Lumber RemanufacturingResawing purchased lumber38
- TarrantMail and parcel delivery35
- JR IndustrialMine site preparation and related construction activities, construction contractors34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,177 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tarrant’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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Tarrant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tarrant$75,123
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Tarrant 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.
- Tarrant20.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tarrant32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tarrant9
Zip codes with a Tarrant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tarrant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.