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Home prices in Alabama since you bought
A home in Alabama bought 10 years ago is worth about 88.8% more today if it kept pace with its state, about 6.6% a year (2016 Q2 to 2026 Q2). The figures are the federal FHFA House Price Index, quarterly, latest 2026 Q2.
Appreciation over 1, 5, 10 and 20 years
| Window | Change | Per year | $300,000 then is now | Periods |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | +3.7% | +3.7% | $311,131 | 2025 Q2 → 2026 Q2 |
| 5 years | +43.8% | +7.5% | $431,330 | 2021 Q2 → 2026 Q2 |
| 10 years | +88.8% | +6.6% | $566,337 | 2016 Q2 → 2026 Q2 |
| 20 years | +94.2% | +3.4% | $582,569 | 2006 Q2 → 2026 Q2 |
Informational only, not an appraisal. This is the area’s average from repeat sales on conforming mortgages; it knows nothing about any particular house.
How Alabama compares
| Area | 1 yr | 5 yr | 10 yr | 20 yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | +3.7% | +43.8% | +88.8% | +94.2% |
| United States | +3.0% | +41.3% | +93.3% | +93.5% |
Windows end at each series’ own latest period; the annual county and ZIP indexes end a few quarters before the quarterly state and metro ones.
What is your home worth since you bought it?
The home value since purchase calculator takes your purchase price, month, year and ZIP and applies the smallest area’s index, falling back to the state when the ZIP has no data.
Metro areas in Alabama
Counties in Alabama
- Autauga County
- Baldwin County
- Barbour County
- Bibb County
- Blount County
- Butler County
- Calhoun County
- Chambers County
- Cherokee County
- Chilton County
- Choctaw County
- Clarke County
- Clay County
- Cleburne County
- Coffee County
- Colbert County
- Conecuh County
- Coosa County
- Covington County
- Crenshaw County
- Cullman County
- Dale County
- Dallas County
- De Kalb County
- Elmore County
- Escambia County
- Etowah County
- Fayette County
- Franklin County
- Geneva County
- Hale County
- Henry County
- Houston County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Lamar County
- Lauderdale County
- Lawrence County
- Lee County
- Limestone County
- Lowndes County
- Macon County
- Madison County
- Marengo County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Mobile County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Morgan County
- Pickens County
- Pike County
- Randolph County
- Russell County
- Saint Clair County
- Shelby County
- Sumter County
- Talladega County
- Tallapoosa County
- Tuscaloosa County
- Walker County
- Washington County
- Wilcox County
- Winston County
Where these figures come from
Series. FHFA HPI, traditional / all-transactions / quarterly, NSA, State AL, from the FHFA House Price Index datasets. Each change is the index at the end of the window divided by the index at its start, ending at the latest published period (2026 Q2). Per-year figures are compound annual rates. Snapshot vintage: master file through 2026 Q2.
What it leaves out. The index is estimated from repeat sales and appraisals on mortgages bought or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, so cash, jumbo, FHA and VA purchases are not in it. It tracks the area, not any house: renovations, condition and lot are invisible to it.
Data pulled 2026-09-28. FHFA publishes state and metro indexes quarterly and county and ZIP indexes annually; this page updates with each pull.