Union Grove, Alabama.
Typical home $257,401 (+3.5% in a year). Albertville, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$730 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,745 +4%
- $248,656$257,401 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,554 +22%
- $211,847$257,401 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.
- Union Grove$1,351
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Union Grove, AL rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Union Grove, Marshall County, Alabama
Union Grove is a town of 67 people in Marshall County. Unemployment in Marshall County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marshall County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Union Grove is a small town in Marshall County, Alabama, where most people know one another and daily life moves at an unhurried pace. Winters are cold, summers are hot, snow is rare, and the year is on the wet side. The town sits within easy reach of the lakes, rivers and caves of northern Alabama.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Others work in local shops or in professional and business services. A smaller share of adults hold a degree than in most of the country.
Things to do. Guntersville Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, is a good place for an easy afternoon by the water. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, a museum a longer drive away, is one of the best known places to visit in the area. Painted Bluff, an archaeological site a short drive away, offers a quieter look at the region's older history.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
What people in Marshall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 41,043 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° 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 Guntersville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- Farm Fresh FoodsCutting of purchased carcasses merchant wholesalers1,625
- Pilgrim's Guntersville PlantPoultry processing1,619
- Marshall Medical Centers SouthGeneral hospital1,361FTE
- Tyson ChickenPoultry processing953
- Wayne Sanderson FarmsPoultry processing910
- Alatrade Foods Inc - AlbertvillePoultry processing825
- Marshall County SchoolsSchool district644FTE
- Alatrade Foods Inc - BoazPoultry processing570
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 89 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,789 people in all across the county; Union Grove has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Union Grove’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 Marshall County and the Albertville, AL metro.
Union Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Union Grove$257,401
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Union Grove 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.
- Union Grove26.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Union Grove24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Union Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Union Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.