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Housing in Minor

A typical Minor home is worth about $114,000

Up 3.8% in a year, 53% below the Alabama typical home.

Typical home value
$114K
▲ 3.8% in a year · AL $242K
Zillow
Median sale price
$90K
May 2026 · Redfin
Homes sold
3
in May · 4 for sale
2-bedroom rent
$1,110
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$492
AL $788

Only 3 sales in May 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.

What kind of housing town is Minor?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.7 years of income

Less than across Alabama (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$173,000
Typical Minor home $114K

That covers a typical Minor home, with $59K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$640
Loan $560Tax $50Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,110 a month here, $470 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Minor’s typical property tax (0.52% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Up 12.7% in five years

Slower than Alabama (17.7%).

MinorAlabama
$50K$100K$150K$200K$250K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryMinorAlabama
2017$55,000$147,000
2018$55,000$152,000
2019$67,000$158,000
2020$75,000$170,000
2021$91,000$188,000
2022$105,000$215,000
2023$111,000$228,000
2024$107,000$233,000
2025$114,000$238,000
2026$107,000$239,000
August 2026$114,000$242,000
Then & now

A typical Minor home worth $55K in September 2016 is worth about $114K today.

+$58K
+3.7%
past year
+12.7%
past 5 years
+105.2%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,110

Renters already here pay a median of $1,096.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$900
1 bedroom$1,010
2 bedrooms$1,110
3 bedrooms$1,390
4 bedrooms$1,580
31%
of households rent · AL 30%
85
renter households
$1,096
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Birmingham-Hoover, AL HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

69% of Minor households own their home

Half of Minor’s homes were built before 1965.

Owners and renters
Own 69%Rent 31%

Alabama: 70% own.

1965
typical home built · AL 1986
$492
median property tax bill · AL $788
0.52%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · AL 0.38%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Next door

Minor vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Minor. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Minor$114K+3.8%$1,110—$42,321
Birmingham$137K−2.4%$1,200579$46,051

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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