Calhoun, Tennessee.
Typical home $259,899 (+5.6% in a year). Athens, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$736 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,848 +6%
- $246,051$259,899 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,414 +25%
- $207,484$259,899 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.
- Calhoun$1,364
- 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 Calhoun, TN rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Calhoun, McMinn County, Tennessee
Calhoun is a town of 536 people in McMinn County. Unemployment in McMinn County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McMinn County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Calhoun is a very small town in McMinn County, Tennessee, and most days it likely feels quiet and close-knit. A typical home here is worth more than many people might expect for a town of its size, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with very little snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across McMinn County, the largest workplaces include DENSO Manufacturing, McMinn County Schools and Starr Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and there are slightly fewer jobs than there were the year before. Most people commute a fair distance to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Fort Cass, a historic fort, is in or beside town. A longer drive away are Red Clay State Park, a protected area with a place in Cherokee history, and Watts Bar Lake, a large reservoir good for time on the water. The Hiwassee River, also a longer drive away, is a well-known river for paddling and fishing.
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- 18%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in McMinn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McMinn County had 17,072 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland Fltr Plt weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McMinn County
- DENSO Manufacturing Athens TennesseeGasoline engine parts, mechanical, automotive and truck, manufacturing1,531
- McMinn County SchoolsSchool district731FTE
- Starr Regional Medical CenterHospitals, general medical and surgical564
- Athens Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital414FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters378
- Johns ManvilleOther pressed and blown glass and glassware manufacturing352
- DFA Dairy Brands FluidFluid milk manufacturing340
- AdientMotor vehicle seats, metal framed, manufacturing289
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,417 people in all across the county; Calhoun has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Calhoun’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 McMinn County and the Athens, TN metro.
Calhoun home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Calhoun$259,899
- 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.
- Calhoun15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Calhoun4
Zip codes with a Calhoun address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Calhoun — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.