Thorsby, Alabama.
Typical home $233,679 (+9.2% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$660 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,690 +9%
- $213,989$233,679 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,145 +25%
- $186,534$233,679 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.
- Thorsby$1,227
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Thorsby, AL rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thorsby, Chilton County, Alabama
Thorsby is a city of 2,064 people in Chilton County. Half its households earn more than $76,389 a year and half less, against $65,603 across Chilton County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Chilton County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thorsby is a small city in Chilton County, Alabama, with a population that is small even by the standards of Alabama towns. Household incomes here run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and chilly days that stay above freezing, while summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in shops. Across Chilton County, some of the largest workplaces are Chilton County Schools, Adient and Kumi Manufacturing Alabama. Commutes are on the long side, which suggests many people travel some distance for work, and a share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Everything on the list of nearby places is a longer drive away. Lay Lake is a reservoir that suits a day on the water, and Oak Mountain State Park is a protected area with room to walk and spend time outdoors. The Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum is the best known of the area's museums, for anyone interested in railroad history.
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- 846households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chilton County had 9,431 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Thorsby Experiment Station weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chilton County
- Chilton County SchoolsSchool district782FTE
- AdientAutomobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing690
- Kumi Manufacturing AlabamaMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing346
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters320
- Foodservice Alabama300
- Boise Cascade CoEngineered wood member except truss manufacturing235
- St. Vincent's Chilton CountyHealthcare191
- West Fraser - MaplesvilleSawmills139
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,104 people in all across the county; Thorsby has one 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Thorsby’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Chilton County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Thorsby home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thorsby$233,679
- 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.
- Thorsby14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Thorsby address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thorsby — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.