Bybee, Tennessee.
Typical home $242,439 (+9.8% in a year). Newport, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$734 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,585 +10%
- $220,855$242,439 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,605 +39%
- $173,834$242,439 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.
- Bybee$1,273
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Bybee, TN rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bybee, Cocke County, Tennessee
The Census does not count Bybee on its own, so the figures here are Cocke County's. Half the county's households earn more than $48,016 a year and half less; 22% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Cocke County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 6.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cocke County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bybee is a small town in Cocke County, in East Tennessee, where most homes across the county are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with only light snow and a fairly wet year. Figures for the town are drawn from the county as a whole, which is how the census reports this area.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in retail shops. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs in the county fell over the past year. Few people work from home, and daily commutes are long.
Things to do. The Nolichucky River and the Pigeon River are both a short drive away, and both are rivers to visit for water and riverside outings. Cherokee National Forest and the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site are a longer drive, the first a protected forest and the second a historic site.
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- 15,509households
- 45.3median age
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Cocke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cocke County had 7,408 jobs in 2025, 6.3% 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 88° and lows near 67°. About 3 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport Northwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cocke County
- Cocke County SchoolsSchool district695FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters346
- Newport Medical CenterGeneral hospital253FTE
- SonocoTubes and cores235
- Ole Smoky DistilleryDistilleries143
- SSW Advanced TechnologiesShelving, wire, made from purchased wire140
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket138
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter129
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,215 people in all. School districts come 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Cocke County, 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 Cocke County and the Newport, TN metro.
Bybee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bybee$242,439
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bybee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bybee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.