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Home appreciation in Auburn, AL

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Auburn, AL grew an average of 9.0% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+6.0%

2025 over 2024. Alabama: +3.8%.

5-year, per year

+9.0%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Alabama: +8.8%.

10-year, per year

+6.9%

+95.0% in total since 2015. Alabama: +6.4%.

How does your home compare?

Auburn, AL home prices rose 95.0% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +70.9% to +93.8%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Auburn, AL compares with Alabama

The metro and its state moved almost together over that window. For five-year price growth, Auburn, AL ranks 210th out of 409 metros nationwide and 6th out of 12 in Alabama.

Index, 2005 = 100

Auburn-Opelika, AL and Alabama, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearAuburn-Opelika, ALAlabama
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2102102
2005 Q3105105
2005 Q4106107
2006 Q1109109
2006 Q2109111
2006 Q3112112
2006 Q4116115
2007 Q1117115
2007 Q2117117
2007 Q3118117
2007 Q4117118
2008 Q1118119
2008 Q2117118
2008 Q3116117
2008 Q4116118
2009 Q1118119
2009 Q2116118
2009 Q3113115
2009 Q4114114
2010 Q1110113
2010 Q2108111
2010 Q3109113
2010 Q4108112
2011 Q1106109
2011 Q2102107
2011 Q3104108
2011 Q4105109
2012 Q1103108
2012 Q2102107
2012 Q3103108
2012 Q4104108
2013 Q1102107
2013 Q2101107
2013 Q3101107
2013 Q4100107
2014 Q1103107
2014 Q2103107
2014 Q3103109
2014 Q4104109
2015 Q1105110
2015 Q2106111
2015 Q3104111
2015 Q4106112
2016 Q1109112
2016 Q2109114
2016 Q3111116
2016 Q4112115
2017 Q1115116
2017 Q2114117
2017 Q3116118
2017 Q4115119
2018 Q1117120
2018 Q2120122
2018 Q3123123
2018 Q4123124
2019 Q1125126
2019 Q2127128
2019 Q3129129
2019 Q4128131
2020 Q1131133
2020 Q2131134
2020 Q3135137
2020 Q4136140
2021 Q1139143
2021 Q2146149
2021 Q3151158
2021 Q4157164
2022 Q1162169
2022 Q2173178
2022 Q3172184
2022 Q4179183
2023 Q1175186
2023 Q2186188
2023 Q3192192
2023 Q4187192
2024 Q1187195
2024 Q2191199
2024 Q3195201
2024 Q4202203
2025 Q1201203
2025 Q2210207
2025 Q3201207
2025 Q4209211
2026 Q1211212
2026 Q2212215

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.9% a year over ten years, +95.0% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2007, fell 13.9% to its 2013 low, and regained the 2007 level in 2018.

The strongest year was 2022 at +15.8%, and the weakest was 2010 at -5.5%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +6.0%, against +3.8% for the state.

ZIP codes in Auburn, AL

Over the ten years to 2025, the 7 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +70.9% in 36870 to +93.8% in 36801, while the metro as a whole rose 95.0%.

ZIP codes in Auburn-Opelika, AL ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
36801+7.5%+8.7%+6.8%+93.8%
36830+4.7%+8.3%+6.8%+93.3%
36832+6.7%+8.9%+6.8%+92.4%
36877+14.2%+9.6%+6.1%+80.5%
36804-1.9%+8.1%+6.1%+80.3%
36874+1.0%+8.8%+5.9%+78.0%
36870-2.1%+8.2%+5.5%+70.9%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Auburn-Opelika, AL and Alabama, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006108.1+8.1%107.9
2007113.6+5.1%113.0
2008113.2-0.4%114.3
2009111.5-1.4%112.6
2010105.4-5.5%108.4
2011101.2-4.0%104.7
201299.8-1.4%104.2
201397.8-2.0%103.4
201499.9+2.1%104.5
2015101.9+2.0%107.4
2016106.6+4.6%110.5
2017111.6+4.7%113.8
2018117.1+5.0%118.3
2019123.3+5.3%124.3
2020129.2+4.8%131.5
2021143.7+11.2%148.6
2022166.4+15.8%172.7
2023179.2+7.7%183.2
2024187.6+4.7%192.9
2025198.8+6.0%200.3

The 12 measured metros in Alabama

Measured metros in Alabama ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL+4.2%+10.3%+6.7%
2Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL+4.1%+9.9%+7.8%
3Decatur, AL+2.0%+9.8%+6.7%
4Gadsden, AL+4.9%+9.6%+6.1%
5Huntsville, AL+2.1%+9.6%+7.2%
6Auburn-Opelika, AL+6.0%+9.0%+6.9%
7Anniston-Oxford, AL+4.0%+8.9%+6.2%
8Mobile, AL+3.8%+8.7%+6.5%
9Dothan, AL+3.5%+8.1%+5.3%
10Birmingham, AL+3.2%+7.9%+6.3%
11Tuscaloosa, AL+6.2%+7.7%+5.8%
12Montgomery, AL+4.6%+7.6%+4.8%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Alabama row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2