Apison, Tennessee.
. Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$960 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
Living in Apison, Hamilton County, Tennessee
Apison, in Hamilton County, had 4,428 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hamilton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Apison is a community in Hamilton County, Tennessee, on the eastern edge of the Chattanooga area. Its residents are older on the whole than people across the country, and the winters are cool and mild: January is the coldest month, with daytime highs a little above freezing and nights just below it. Summers are hot, July being the warmest month, and the year brings only a dusting of snow but plenty of rain.
Work. People who live in Apison work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Hamilton County, some of the largest workplaces are Hamilton County Schools, Erlanger Medical Center and Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations. Jobs in the county were slightly fewer last year than the year before, and a fair number of residents work from home, though many others make a fairly short drive to work.
Things to do. Red Clay State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as are the creeks that run through the area, Tiger Creek and South Chickamauga Creek. A longer drive brings you into Chattanooga, where the Tennessee Aquarium and the Hunter Museum of American Art are among the best known places to visit.
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- 1,581households
- 26 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Hamilton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 219,580 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 4 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chattanooga Lovell Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hamilton County
- Hamilton County SchoolsSchool district6,512FTE
- USXpressContainer trucking services, long-distance6,267
- Erlanger Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,590FTE
- BlueCross BlueShield of TennesseeHealth insurance carriers, direct5,310
- Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga OperationsChassis, automobile, manufacturing3,981
- McKee FoodsCroutons and bread crumbs made in commercial bakeries3,175
- City of ChattanoogaExecutive offices, federal, state, and local2,618
- Memorial Health Care SystemGeneral hospital2,420FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 445 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82,961 people in all across the county; Apison has one of its own. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of ApisonRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of ApisonRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of ApisonRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Apison’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Hamilton County and the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
Apison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Apison listings — the market is roughly in balance.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Apison39.61%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Apison39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Apison8
Zip codes with a Apison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Apison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.