Birmingham, AL Rental Market Trends

Birmingham Rent Report: April 2024

Welcome to the Apartment List April 2024 Rent Report for Birmingham, AL. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $1,119, roughly the same as last month. Prices are now down 3.8% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Birmingham rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the nation as a whole.

Birmingham rents are flat month-over-month and down 3.8% year-over-year

The median rent in Birmingham fell by 0.1% over the course of March, and has now decreased by a total of 3.8% over the past 12 months. Birmingham’s rent growth over the past year has is similar to the state average (-2.9%) but has fallen below the national average (-0.8%).

Birmingham rent growth in 2024 pacing below last year

Three months into the year, rents in Birmingham have risen 0.0%. This is a slower rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to March 2023 rents had increased 1.6%.

Methodology

Apartment List is committed to the accuracy and transparency of our rent estimates. We begin with reliable median rent statistics from the Census Bureau, then extrapolate them forward to the current month using a growth rate calculated from our listing data. In doing so, we use a same-unit analysis similar to Case-Shiller’s approach, capturing apartment transactions over time to provide an accurate picture of rent growth in cities across the country. Our approach corrects for the sample bias inherent in other private sources, producing results that are much closer to statistics published by the Census Bureau and HUD. For more details, please see the Apartment List Rent Estimate Methodology.

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