A typical Mount Olive home is worth about $266,000
Up 3% in a year, 10% above the Alabama typical home. Homes typically sell in 43 days, close to asking.
What kind of housing town is Mount Olive?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 3.2 years of income
Less than across Alabama (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Mount Olive home, with $70K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170 a month here, $340 less than owning.
How Mount Olive ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Mount Olive’s typical property tax (0.54% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
88% of Mount Olive households own their home
Half of Mount Olive’s homes were built before 1975.
Alabama: 70% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
Up 22.1% in five years
Faster than Alabama (17.7%).
Show as a table
| January | Mount Olive | Alabama |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $164,000 | $147,000 |
| 2018 | $171,000 | $152,000 |
| 2019 | $178,000 | $158,000 |
| 2020 | $186,000 | $170,000 |
| 2021 | $202,000 | $188,000 |
| 2022 | $225,000 | $215,000 |
| 2023 | $248,000 | $228,000 |
| 2024 | $255,000 | $233,000 |
| 2025 | $257,000 | $238,000 |
| 2026 | $263,000 | $239,000 |
| August 2026 | $266,000 | $242,000 |
A typical Mount Olive home worth $160K in September 2016 is worth about $266K today.
How Mount Olive ranks on rising home prices →
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A seller's market
Supply is tight — about 3.4 months of homes for sale at the current pace. Buyers should expect competition on well-priced homes.
Under ~4 months of supply favors sellers; over ~6 favors buyers.
Redfin Data Center, all residential sales, May 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
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.
Mount Olive vs. its neighbors
Mount Olive is the 2nd least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Olive | $266K | +3% | $1,170 | — | $82,234 |
| Gardendale | $271K | +2.4% | $1,280 | 152 | $82,192 |
| Brookside | $107K* | +1.2%† | $1,130 | 31 | $59,271 |
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.
On the market in Mount Olive
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
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What Mount Olive buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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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.