State housing costs
Alabama housing costs, ownership, and rent in the latest ACS
Statewide evidence on home value, income, owner costs, housing stock, tenure, vacancy, and rent for borrower planning.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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The published evidence provides the starting point: Alabama's 2024 ACS housing baseline reports a median owner-occupied home value of $209,900, median household income of $63,999, and median selected monthly owner costs of $1,433 for owners with a mortgage. For the decision at hand, those three reference points can help a borrower identify which statewide value, income, and recurring-cost assumptions need local replacement first. They remain separate medians, not the price, income, and monthly budget of one typical household, and the $1,433 measure is not a real-estate-tax figure or a current mortgage quote. In practical terms, a real decision still requires local property evidence, borrower documentation, taxes, insurance, maintenance, association obligations, and current loan information.
Applied to a decision in Alabama, ACS vacancy includes categories beyond property currently offered for sale or rent, so 14.5% is not a live inventory rate and cannot measure competition for a selected home. Read beside the 70.2% owner share and 29.8% renter share, the vacancy figure helps describe how the broad stock was classified without predicting near-term supply. For the decision at hand, a borrower should use current listings, property condition, days on market, concessions, and local professional context to answer transaction questions that 14.5% and 2,337,265 were not designed to resolve.