Bean Station, Tennessee.
Typical home $269,843 (+3.0% in a year). Morristown, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$833 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,759 +3%
- $262,083$269,843 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,468 +33%
- $203,375$269,843 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.
- Bean Station$1,416
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bean Station, TN rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bean Station, Grainger County, Tennessee
Bean Station is a city of 2,967 people in Grainger County. Half its households earn more than $44,785 a year and half less, against $50,538 across Grainger County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Grainger County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grainger 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bean Station is a small Tennessee town in Grainger County where most homes are lived in by their owners and residents tend to be older than in most places. Incomes run below the county's, and a good share of people live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. People in town work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Grainger County, some of the biggest employers are Grainger County Schools, Clayton, which builds manufactured homes, and Life Care Centers of America, a skilled nursing provider. The drive to work is a fairly long one, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low, though the county has lost some jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Cherokee Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, and the Nolichucky River is a river reached by a similar drive. Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive from town. These are the kind of outings that fill a day, with water and woodland rather than anything close by.
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- 1,205households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Grainger County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grainger County had 4,198 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer 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 86° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morristown Radio Wcrk weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grainger County
- Grainger County SchoolsSchool district455FTE
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing314
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing303
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket170
- Life Care Centers of AmericaSkilled nursing facilities109
- FILMtechFlexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing80
- Red Diamond EnterprisesVegetable and melon farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed production53
- Bean StationMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,071 people in all across the county; Bean Station has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bean Station’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 Grainger County and the Morristown, TN metro.
Bean Station home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bean Station$269,843
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bean Station listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
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.
- Bean Station27.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bean Station30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bean Station7
Zip codes with a Bean Station address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bean Station — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.