Alpine, Tennessee.
Typical home $219,389 (+6.3% in a year). Cookeville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$477 (+71%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $13,001 +6%
- $206,388$219,389 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Alpine$1,152
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Alpine, TN rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alpine, Overton County, Tennessee
The Census does not count Alpine on its own, so the figures here are Overton County's. Half the county's households earn more than $48,959 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Overton County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Overton County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alpine is a small town in Overton County, in the Upper Cumberland part of Tennessee. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents have a long connection to the area. The town is not counted separately in the Census, so the local figures here are the county's.
Work. Residents across Overton County work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Unemployment is low, and the county added jobs in the most recent year. A smaller share of adults hold a college degree than across most of the country, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Dale Hollow Reservoir, a reservoir a longer drive away, is a good choice for water and boating. Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers rivers, gorges and trails. Standing Stone State Park, another protected area a longer drive away, is a quieter option for walking and the woods.
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- 9,071households
- 43.7median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Overton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Overton County had 5,760 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 2 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Livingston Radio Wliv weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Overton County
- Overton County SchoolsSchool district464FTE
- Engineered Materials LivingstonGasket, packing, and sealing device manufacturing255
- INOAC Exterior SystemsPaint sticks, plastics, manufacturing225
- Livingston Regional HospitalGeneral hospital225FTE
- INOAC Exterior SystemsMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing192
- T&A - TennesseeVegetable farming, grown under cover105
- W & O Construction CompanyPumping station, water and sewage system, construction98
- Food LionGrocery stores85
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,538 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Overton County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Overton County and the Cookeville, TN metro.
Alpine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alpine$219,389
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Alpine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alpine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.