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Home appreciation in Gadsden, AL

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Gadsden, AL grew an average of 9.6% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+4.9%

2025 over 2024. Alabama: +3.8%.

5-year, per year

+9.6%

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

10-year, per year

+6.1%

+81.6% in total since 2015. Alabama: +6.4%.

How does your home compare?

Gadsden, AL home prices rose 81.6% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +62.9% to +109.9%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Gadsden, AL compares with Alabama

Alabama averaged +8.8% a year, so Gadsden, AL grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Gadsden, AL ranks 152nd out of 409 metros nationwide and 4th out of 12 in Alabama.

Index, 2005 = 100

Gadsden, AL and Alabama, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearGadsden, ALAlabama
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2104102
2005 Q3105105
2005 Q4108107
2006 Q1108109
2006 Q2108111
2006 Q3108112
2006 Q4113115
2007 Q1113115
2007 Q2113117
2007 Q3114117
2007 Q4117118
2008 Q1117119
2008 Q2115118
2008 Q3117117
2008 Q4117118
2009 Q1118119
2009 Q2116118
2009 Q3117115
2009 Q4115114
2010 Q1112113
2010 Q2111111
2010 Q3115113
2010 Q4114112
2011 Q1109109
2011 Q2111107
2011 Q3114108
2011 Q4112109
2012 Q1113108
2012 Q2112107
2012 Q3114108
2012 Q4112108
2013 Q1116107
2013 Q2113107
2013 Q3112107
2013 Q4113107
2014 Q1112107
2014 Q2111107
2014 Q3113109
2014 Q4110109
2015 Q1113110
2015 Q2114111
2015 Q3114111
2015 Q4115112
2016 Q1114112
2016 Q2117114
2016 Q3115116
2016 Q4111115
2017 Q1112116
2017 Q2113117
2017 Q3113118
2017 Q4122119
2018 Q1117120
2018 Q2118122
2018 Q3121123
2018 Q4121124
2019 Q1122126
2019 Q2123128
2019 Q3125129
2019 Q4125131
2020 Q1128133
2020 Q2131134
2020 Q3131137
2020 Q4133140
2021 Q1139143
2021 Q2143149
2021 Q3150158
2021 Q4158164
2022 Q1165169
2022 Q2171178
2022 Q3178184
2022 Q4177183
2023 Q1181186
2023 Q2177188
2023 Q3192192
2023 Q4192192
2024 Q1192195
2024 Q2194199
2024 Q3198201
2024 Q4203203
2025 Q1200203
2025 Q2208207
2025 Q3205207
2025 Q4212211
2026 Q1221212
2026 Q2209215

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.1% a year over ten years, +81.6% in total.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 4.3% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2022 at +17.2%, and the weakest was 2010 at -3.1%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +4.9%, against +3.8% for the state.

ZIP codes in Gadsden, AL

Over the ten years to 2025, the 9 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +62.9% in 35906 to +109.9% in 35954, while the metro as a whole rose 81.6%.

ZIP codes in Gadsden, 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.
35954+9.9%+9.5%+7.7%+109.9%
35904+8.3%+10.4%+6.8%+93.0%
35952+17.2%+9.0%+6.6%+89.0%
35905+4.2%+10.7%+6.1%+80.2%
35956-6.3%+8.5%+5.9%+77.1%
35907+3.9%+8.6%+5.6%+72.6%
35903+2.2%+9.1%+5.6%+72.1%
35901+4.2%+8.9%+5.3%+67.5%
35906+0.6%+7.8%+5.0%+62.9%

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.

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Year by year

Annual house price index for Gadsden, 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
2006104.8+4.8%107.9
2007109.7+4.7%113.0
2008112.0+2.1%114.3
2009111.8-0.2%112.6
2010108.3-3.1%108.4
2011107.2-1.0%104.7
2012108.1+0.8%104.2
2013108.8+0.7%103.4
2014107.1-1.5%104.5
2015109.1+1.9%107.4
2016109.8+0.6%110.5
2017110.7+0.8%113.8
2018114.4+3.3%118.3
2019118.7+3.7%124.3
2020125.5+5.7%131.5
2021141.7+12.9%148.6
2022166.0+17.2%172.7
2023178.3+7.4%183.2
2024188.9+5.9%192.9
2025198.2+4.9%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