Bruceton, Tennessee.
Typical home $142,054 (-0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$401 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $407 -0%
- $142,461$142,054 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,647 +25%
- $113,407$142,054 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.
- Bruceton$746
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Bruceton, TN fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bruceton, Carroll County, Tennessee
Bruceton is a town of 1,507 people in Carroll County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bruceton is a small town in Carroll County, in West Tennessee, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes in the county are modest, and a typical home here costs well below what many American towns ask. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a typical commute takes a good part of an hour's drive out and back each day.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Carroll County, the largest workplaces include Bethel University, Hydro-Gear in Huntingdon and Walmart. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Several state parks lie within a longer drive, among them Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park and Natchez Trace State Park, and the Big Sandy River is also a longer drive away. Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is another longer drive for those who like open country. Winters are cold but bring little snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
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- 597households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents 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 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Camden weather station, 9 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; Bruceton 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 Bruceton’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.
Bruceton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bruceton$142,054
- 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.
- Bruceton10
Zip codes with a Bruceton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bruceton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.