Ardmore, Tennessee.
Typical home $259,834 (+3.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$756 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,659 +3%
- $252,176$259,834 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,791 +25%
- $208,043$259,834 since Sep 2021
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.
- Ardmore$1,364
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Ardmore, TN rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ardmore, Lincoln County, Tennessee
Ardmore is a city of 1,217 people in Lincoln County. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ardmore is a small city in Lincoln County, Tennessee, where the population is modest and most daily errands stay close to home. Home values here sit at a moderate level, and incomes across Lincoln County are middling. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and freezing nights not unusual, while July brings hot summer days. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Within Ardmore, workplaces include Lookout Pest Control and Ragland Brothers Piggly Wiggly 80, along with mail and parcel delivery. Commutes run long, which suggests many people travel some distance to their jobs, and only a small share work from home. Across Lincoln County, there are fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment has stayed close to where it was.
Things to do. A short drive away, Richland Creek is a river good for time by the water, and the Sulphur Trestle Fort Site is an archaeological site tied to the region's history. A longer drive brings the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, a museum, and Huntsville Botanical Garden, a botanical garden for slower walks.
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- 459households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 44 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 9,796 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ardmore weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ardmore
- Lookout Pest ControlPest control for building28
- ArdmoreMail and parcel delivery25
- Ragland Brothers Piggly Wiggly 80Supermarkets and other grocery retailers except convenience retailers23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 76 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ardmore’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Lincoln County.
Ardmore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ardmore$259,834
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ardmore16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ardmore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ardmore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.