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Home appreciation in Tuscaloosa, AL

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Tuscaloosa, AL grew an average of 7.7% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+6.2%

2025 over 2024. Alabama: +3.8%.

5-year, per year

+7.7%

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

10-year, per year

+5.8%

+75.0% in total since 2015. Alabama: +6.4%.

How does your home compare?

Tuscaloosa, AL home prices rose 75.0% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +55.1% to +141.4%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Tuscaloosa, AL compares with Alabama

Alabama averaged +8.8% a year, putting Tuscaloosa, AL behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Tuscaloosa, AL ranks 310th out of 409 metros nationwide and 11th out of 12 in Alabama.

Index, 2005 = 100

Tuscaloosa, AL and Alabama, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearTuscaloosa, ALAlabama
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2102102
2005 Q3104105
2005 Q4106107
2006 Q1107109
2006 Q2110111
2006 Q3111112
2006 Q4111115
2007 Q1113115
2007 Q2113117
2007 Q3114117
2007 Q4114118
2008 Q1115119
2008 Q2116118
2008 Q3116117
2008 Q4117118
2009 Q1117119
2009 Q2115118
2009 Q3113115
2009 Q4116114
2010 Q1113113
2010 Q2111111
2010 Q3113113
2010 Q4113112
2011 Q1108109
2011 Q2108107
2011 Q3110108
2011 Q4111109
2012 Q1110108
2012 Q2110107
2012 Q3112108
2012 Q4113108
2013 Q1113107
2013 Q2113107
2013 Q3113107
2013 Q4112107
2014 Q1112107
2014 Q2111107
2014 Q3113109
2014 Q4112109
2015 Q1114110
2015 Q2115111
2015 Q3114111
2015 Q4113112
2016 Q1116112
2016 Q2117114
2016 Q3120116
2016 Q4119115
2017 Q1119116
2017 Q2121117
2017 Q3120118
2017 Q4123119
2018 Q1125120
2018 Q2125122
2018 Q3126123
2018 Q4126124
2019 Q1128126
2019 Q2130128
2019 Q3130129
2019 Q4131131
2020 Q1134133
2020 Q2137134
2020 Q3139137
2020 Q4140140
2021 Q1142143
2021 Q2149149
2021 Q3155158
2021 Q4157164
2022 Q1162169
2022 Q2172178
2022 Q3173184
2022 Q4171183
2023 Q1175186
2023 Q2178188
2023 Q3181192
2023 Q4181192
2024 Q1185195
2024 Q2185199
2024 Q3187201
2024 Q4194203
2025 Q1196203
2025 Q2197207
2025 Q3199207
2025 Q4204211
2026 Q1201212
2026 Q2197215

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +5.8% a year over ten years, +75.0% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2008, fell 5.5% to its 2011 low, and regained the 2008 level in 2016.

The strongest year was 2022 at +12.3%, and the weakest was 2011 at -2.9%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +6.2%, against +3.8% for the state.

ZIP codes in Tuscaloosa, AL

Over the ten years to 2025, the 12 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +55.1% in 35453 to +141.4% in 35476, while the metro as a whole rose 75.0%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 35476+141.4%
  2. 35452+84.5%
  3. 35475+72.6%
  4. 35473+71.6%
  5. 35466+71.3%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 35453+55.1%
  2. 35401+56.3%
  3. 35405+57.0%
  4. 35404+59.0%
  5. 35111+60.2%
ZIP codes in Tuscaloosa, 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.
35476+31.6%+11.2%+9.2%+141.4%
35452-6.1%+9.1%+6.3%+84.5%
35475+2.5%+7.6%+5.6%+72.6%
35473+5.5%+7.8%+5.5%+71.6%
35466+0.4%+8.9%+5.5%+71.3%
35406+3.3%+6.2%+5.1%+63.9%
35490-0.7%+6.8%+5.0%+62.2%
35111+1.6%+6.2%+4.8%+60.2%
35404+3.6%+5.9%+4.7%+59.0%
35405+1.6%+6.0%+4.6%+57.0%
35401-8.5%+6.5%+4.6%+56.3%
35453-2.0%+6.2%+4.5%+55.1%

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 Tuscaloosa, 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
2006106.7+6.7%107.9
2007110.1+3.2%113.0
2008112.6+2.3%114.3
2009112.2-0.4%112.6
2010109.6-2.3%108.4
2011106.5-2.9%104.7
2012108.3+1.7%104.2
2013109.8+1.4%103.4
2014108.7-1.0%104.5
2015110.7+1.8%107.4
2016114.7+3.6%110.5
2017117.3+2.2%113.8
2018122.0+4.1%118.3
2019126.1+3.4%124.3
2020133.6+6.0%131.5
2021146.6+9.7%148.6
2022164.7+12.3%172.7
2023173.8+5.6%183.2
2024182.5+5.0%192.9
2025193.7+6.2%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