Trafford, Alabama.
Typical home $88,412 (-5.6% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$197 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,278 -6%
- $93,690$88,412 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,744 -3%
- $91,156$88,412 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.
- Trafford$464
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Trafford, AL fell 5.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trafford, Jefferson County, Alabama
Trafford is a town of 613 people in Jefferson County. 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 people in Jefferson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trafford is a very small Alabama town in Jefferson County, home to far fewer people than most places in the county. Homes here cost well below what is typical for the country, and the county's household incomes sit at a middling level. Winters are cool and mild by national standards, with snow rare, while summers turn hot, and rain falls generously through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. The commute to work is on the long side. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are University of Alabama Hospital, Children's Hospital of Alabama and Jefferson County Schools, and the county's job count has edged up slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Rickwood Caverns State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Birmingham offers the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Birmingham Zoo, both a longer drive away. Barber Motorsports Park, a race track, is also a longer drive.
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- 39 mintypical commute
What people in Jefferson County 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 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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- University of Alabama HospitalGeneral hospital11,411FTE
- UA Health Services FoundationCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient5,637
- THE Children's Hospital of AlabamaChildren's hospital4,552FTE
- Brasfield & Gorrie Corporate OfficeCommercial building construction4,447
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,660
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district3,404FTE
- Southern Foodservice ManagementCafeteria food services contractors2,670
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,665
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 623 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 101,368 people in all across the county; Trafford has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of TraffordRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trafford’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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Trafford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trafford$88,412
- 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 Trafford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trafford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.