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Housing in Walnut Grove

A typical Walnut Grove home is worth roughly $131,000

Home prices around Walnut Grove have risen about 54% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$131K
▲ 17.2% in a year · AL $242K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,020
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Walnut Grove?

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

★ What stands out · Price trend

Home prices up 54% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Walnut Grove rose 54% over the past 5 years, faster than across Alabama (47%). Last year prices rose 17%.

Walnut Grove areaAlabama
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+17%
past year
+54%
past 5 years
+89%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Walnut Grove, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Affordability

A typical home costs 3.3 years of income

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

You could afford about
$168,000
Typical Walnut Grove home $131K

That covers a typical Walnut Grove home, with $37K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$730
Loan $650Tax $40Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,020 a month here, $290 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Alabama typical property tax (0.38% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,020

Renters already here pay a median of $550, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$810
1 bedroom$900
2 bedrooms$1,020
3 bedrooms$1,280
4 bedrooms$1,430
19%
of households rent · AL 30%
38
renter households
$550
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

81% of Walnut Grove households own their home

Half of Walnut Grove’s homes were built before 1987.

Owners and renters
Own 81%Rent 19%

Alabama: 70% own.

1987
typical home built · AL 1986

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

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. 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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