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The median home value in Fairhope, AL is $473,256 as of 2026-07-31, up 0.92% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$473,256
Year-over-Year
+0.92%
Population
25,782
Fairhope ranks #5 of 91 Alabama cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 108.3% above the state's city median of $227,192. It sits in Baldwin County, where the county-wide median is $376,456.
Median household income in Fairhope is $94,274, so the typical home value is about 5.0× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Fairhope police recorded a violent crime rate of 109 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,152 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Fairhope, that value is $473,256. That's up 0.92% from a year earlier. It is about 108.3% above the typical Alabama city tracked here.
Homes in Fairhope are more expensive than Baldwin County as a whole, where the median is $376,456 — a difference of about 25.7%.
Median household income here is $94,274, so the typical home value is about 5.0× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Fairhope police reported 109 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 25,782. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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