Westover, Alabama.
Typical home $297,094 (+2.5% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$811 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,256 +3%
- $289,838$297,094 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,772 +19%
- $250,322$297,094 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.
- Westover$1,559
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Westover, AL rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westover, Shelby County, Alabama
Westover is a town of 1,766 people in Shelby County. Half its households earn more than $96,932 a year and half less, against $97,961 across Shelby County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Shelby County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westover is a small town in Shelby County, Alabama, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Incomes sit just below the county's, and fewer households live in poverty than in many places. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical resident is neither especially young nor especially old.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Across Shelby County, Shelby County Schools, Alabama Power Company and the University of Montevallo are among the largest workplaces. Commutes tend to be long, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The closest things to do mean a longer drive, mostly toward Birmingham. Barber Motorsports Park is a race track, Birmingham Zoo and Birmingham Botanical Gardens are good for a slow afternoon outdoors, and Oak Mountain State Park is a protected area for walking and time outside. Winters are mild with very little snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 752households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 84,778 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Childersburg Wtp weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shelby County
- Shelby County SchoolsSchool district2,563FTE
- Vulcan Industrial ContractorsBoiler and pipe insulation installation940
- Alabama Power CompanyElectric power distribution816
- Alabaster City SchoolsSchool district799FTE
- University of MontevalloUniversity or college608
- Process EquipmentCommercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services566
- J&M Tank LinesGeneral freight trucking553
- Shelby Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital530FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 166 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,071 people in all across the county; Westover has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Westover’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 Shelby County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Westover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westover$297,094
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Westover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westover — 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.