West Point, Alabama.
Typical home $247,211 (+3.5% in a year). Cullman, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$468 (+56%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $8,312 +3%
- $238,899$247,211 since Sep 2025
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.
- West Point$1,298
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in West Point, AL rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Point, Cullman County, Alabama
West Point is a town of 584 people in Cullman County. Half its households earn more than $68,365 a year and half less, against $62,656 across Cullman County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Cullman County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cullman County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Point is a very small town in Cullman County, Alabama, where a household's typical income is a little above the county's. Homes here are worth a fair amount, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect, which fits a place where much of the work is practical and hands-on. Winters are mild, with cold nights in January, summers turn hot by July, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Cullman County, some of the largest workplaces are R.E. Garrison Trucking, Cullman Regional and Cullman County Schools. Joblessness in the county has risen slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. The Cullman County Museum is a short drive away and a good place to learn local history. For time outdoors, William B. Bankhead National Forest and Rickwood Caverns State Park are both protected areas a longer drive away. Lewis Smith Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive and draws people to the water.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Cullman County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cullman County had 31,028 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Bernard weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cullman County
- R.E. Garrison TruckingMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload1,396
- Cullman RegionalGeneral hospital1,104FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage954
- Cullman County SchoolsSchool district941FTE
- George C Wallace State Community College-HancevilleTwo-year college539
- REHAU AutomotivePlastics automotive440
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters433
- Rusken PackagingBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard430
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 61 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,637 people in all across the county; West Point has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 West Point’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 Cullman County and the Cullman, AL metro.
West Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Point$247,211
- 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.
- West Point6
Zip codes with a West Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.