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The median home value in Muscle Shoals, AL is $263,867 as of 2026-07-31, up 2.87% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$263,867
Year-over-Year
+2.87%
Population
17,501
Muscle Shoals ranks #31 of 91 Alabama cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 16.1% above the state's city median of $227,192. It sits in Colbert County, where the county-wide median is $199,737.
Median household income in Muscle Shoals is $75,894, so the typical home value is about 3.5× 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).
Muscle Shoals police recorded a violent crime rate of 183 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,983 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 Muscle Shoals, that value is $263,867. That's up 2.87% from a year earlier. It is about 16.1% above the typical Alabama city tracked here.
Homes in Muscle Shoals are more expensive than Colbert County as a whole, where the median is $199,737 — a difference of about 32.1%.
Median household income here is $75,894, so the typical home value is about 3.5× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Muscle Shoals police reported 183 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 17,501. 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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