Blaine, Tennessee.
Typical home $331,541 (+4.1% in a year). Morristown, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,035 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,087 +4%
- $318,453$331,541 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,792 +36%
- $243,749$331,541 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.
- Blaine$1,740
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Blaine, TN rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blaine, Grainger County, Tennessee
Blaine is a city of 2,084 people in Grainger County. Half its households earn more than $77,092 a year and half less, against $50,538 across Grainger County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blaine is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's. Fewer residents than in most places hold a four-year degree, and a smaller share live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural area. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Across Grainger County, the largest workplaces include Grainger County Schools, Clayton, which makes manufactured homes, and Life Care Centers of America, which runs skilled nursing facilities. The typical commute is a long one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Dollywood, an amusement park, and Zoo Knoxville are both a longer drive away. Closer to the water, Cherokee Lake and Norris Lake are reservoirs, also a longer drive away. The Museum of Appalachia is another longer drive, for those who like local history.
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- 1,066households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 47° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 63°. About 3 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jefferson City weather station, 12 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; Blaine 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Blaine’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.
Blaine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blaine$331,541
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Blaine 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.
- Blaine21.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Blaine21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Blaine6
Zip codes with a Blaine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blaine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.