Alabama in 2021 home price index and building permits for one year

FHFA annual index 2020 to 2021
Permits in 2021

The FHFA annual house price index for Alabama increased by 10.8% from 2020 to 2021. In the same years, the index for the United States increased by 11.6%. Building permits in the state authorized 22,100 housing units in 2021. 17,879 of the units are in buildings with one unit.

The FHFA HPI® is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. The FHFA HPI® is a weighted, repeat-sales index, meaning that it measures average price changes in repeat sales or refinancings on the same properties.
Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency, FHFA House Price Index, "What does the FHFA HPI® represent?". The site copied the text on 2 Oct 2026.

FHFA about the annual indexes of small areas: We use the all-transactions data but construct indexes on a yearly basis to provide data for very small geographic areas like counties, ZIP codes, and census tracts. FHFA FAQs, question 5

FHFA's name for the file of this index: Counties (Developmental Index; Not Seasonally Adjusted). FHFA revises earlier values of its index in each period: FHFA FAQs, question 13.

Annual index through 2025, from the FHFA release of 31 Mar 2026.

Counties in 2021

Counties of Alabama in 2021, by name: change of the FHFA annual county index from 2020 to 2021, and housing units authorized in 2021
County	Index change	Units authorized	In buildings with 1 unit
Autauga County	+8.0%	277	277
Baldwin County	+13.5%	3,705	3,315
Barbour County	+8.6%	12	12
Bibb County	+5.3%	10	10
Blount County	+11.3%	26	24
Butler County	+3.6%	3	3
Calhoun County	+9.2%	68	68
Chambers County	+10.4%	9	9
Cherokee County	+12.0%	24	24
Chilton County	+9.8%	156	156
Choctaw County	−1.4%	0	0
Clarke County	+5.0%	1	1
Clay County	+2.0%	5	5
Cleburne County	+11.6%	1	1
Coffee County	+8.6%	177	177
Colbert County	+10.8%	221	221
Conecuh County	+0.1%	0	0
Coosa County	+8.3%	0	0
Covington County	+9.4%	5	5
Crenshaw County	+7.3%	0	0
Cullman County	+9.7%	211	191
Dale County	+6.8%	40	40
Dallas County	+6.7%	21	21
DeKalb County	+13.2%	71	71
Elmore County	+7.9%	136	136
Escambia County	+9.2%	10	10
Etowah County	+10.5%	188	138
Fayette County	+11.1%	0	0
Franklin County	+8.1%	18	14
Geneva County	+4.9%	21	21
Hale County	+2.7%	119	119
Henry County	+8.1%	42	40
Houston County	+7.8%	431	431
Jackson County	+14.1%	40	40
Jefferson County	+9.0%	2,121	1,572
Lamar County	+2.2%	0	0
Lauderdale County	+11.7%	138	110
Lawrence County	+15.8%	13	13
Lee County	+10.0%	1,851	1,487
Limestone County	+16.4%	631	473
Lowndes County	+5.8%	0	0
Macon County	+8.4%	10	10
Madison County	+15.8%	5,541	3,757
Marengo County	0.0%	0	0
Marion County	+5.2%	3	3
Marshall County	+12.9%	154	154
Mobile County	+12.8%	1,022	970
Monroe County	+7.9%	0	0
Montgomery County	+7.8%	601	580
Morgan County	+14.8%	213	213
Pickens County	+5.4%	7	7
Pike County	+6.2%	81	81
Randolph County	+10.8%	0	0
Russell County	+10.3%	186	172
Shelby County	+10.5%	1,154	1,154
St. Clair County	+9.9%	517	517
Sumter County	+4.0%	4	4
Talladega County	+8.6%	118	116
Tallapoosa County	+9.9%	279	223
Tuscaloosa County	+8.0%	1,361	636
Walker County	+8.6%	38	38
Washington County	−2.1%	0	0
Wilcox County	+7.3%	0	0
Winston County	+12.7%	0	0

"n/a": FHFA has no county index value for one of the two years.

Building permits by year

Housing units authorized in Alabama by year, 1995 to 2025

20,000

Units in buildings with 1 unit
Units in buildings with 2 or more units

Units for each year

Housing units authorized by building permits in Alabama, by year
Year	All units	1 unit	2 or more units
2025	19,061	15,402	3,659
2024	20,725	17,423	3,302
2023	20,337	16,298	4,039
2022	19,499	15,961	3,538
2021	22,100	17,879	4,221
2020	19,982	17,551	2,431
2019	17,748	14,705	3,043
2018	14,824	12,978	1,846
2017	14,799	12,233	2,566
2016	15,001	11,692	3,309
2015	14,054	10,257	3,797
2014	13,369	9,506	3,863
2013	11,763	9,278	2,485
2012	13,506	9,184	4,322
2011	11,667	8,858	2,809
2010	11,261	8,702	2,559
2009	13,266	9,409	3,857
2008	17,464	12,017	5,447
2007	25,845	18,946	6,899
2006	32,034	24,132	7,902
2005	30,612	24,654	5,958
2004	27,411	22,392	5,019
2003	22,256	17,671	4,585
2002	18,403	15,145	3,258
2001	17,706	14,044	3,662
2000	17,406	13,672	3,734
1999	19,029	14,926	4,103
1998	20,533	14,655	5,878
1997	17,732	13,634	4,098
1996	19,868	14,566	5,302
1995	20,114	13,412	6,702

Sources: Federal Housing Finance Agency, annual house price indexes for states and counties, release of March 31, 2026. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, annual state and county files.