Atwood, Tennessee.
Typical home $157,823 (+0.6% in a year). Jackson, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$402 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $943 +1%
- $156,879$157,823 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,953 +14%
- $137,870$157,823 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.
- Atwood$828
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Atwood, TN rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atwood, Carroll County, Tennessee
Atwood is a town of 940 people in Carroll County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Carroll County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carroll County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atwood is a very small town in Carroll County, Tennessee, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and household incomes across Carroll County sit below the national picture. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers run hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Across Carroll County, the largest workplaces include Bethel University, Hydro-Gear in Huntingdon and Walmart. Most people commute a fair distance to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Natchez Trace State Park and Big Cypress Tree State Park are protected areas a longer drive away, and Davy Crockett Lake is a reservoir in the same range. Those who prefer an evening out can head to the Varsity Theatre in Martin, also a longer drive away.
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- 429households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Carroll County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 7,535 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milan Experiment Station weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Bethel UniversityUniversity or college588
- Granges Americas Inc. - HuntingdonAluminum sheet made in integrated secondary smelting and flat rolling mills534
- Hydro-Gear, HuntingdonHydrostatic transmissions manufacturing231
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters215
- Huntingdon Special School DistrictSchool district178FTE
- McKenzie SchoolsSchool district169FTE
- Baptist MEM Hospital HuntingdonGeneral hospital156FTE
- West Carroll Sp Dist SchoolsSchool district134FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,525 people in all across the county; Atwood has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atwood’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Carroll County and the Jackson, TN metro.
Atwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atwood$157,823
- 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.
- Atwood8
Zip codes with a Atwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.