Centerville, Tennessee.
Typical home $243,251 (+2.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,503 +2%
- $237,748$243,251 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,194 +32%
- $184,057$243,251 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.
- Centerville$1,277
- 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 Centerville, TN rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Centerville, Hickman County, Tennessee
Centerville is a town of 3,532 people in Hickman County. Half its households earn more than $59,167 a year and half less, against $68,247 across Hickman County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Hickman County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Centerville is a small town and the seat of Hickman County, Tennessee. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, though incomes run below the county's and a four-year degree is held by only a small share of adults. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and frost common at night, and summers turn hot by July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants and hotels, manufacturing and shops also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Centerville include Hickman County Schools, Life Care Center of Centerville and Agrana Fruit US, which makes fruit syrups and flavorings. The typical commute is fairly long, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The countryside around Centerville is cut by small waterways, and several are a short drive away. Morgan Creek, Big Swan Creek and Piney River are all rivers within a short drive, handy for time spent outdoors close to home.
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- 1,410households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hickman County had 4,123 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Centerville 4NE weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Centerville
- Hickman County SchoolsSchool district474FTE
- Life Care Center of CentervilleConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals106
- Agrana Fruit US, Inc. CentervilleFruit syrups, flavoring, manufacturing90
- St Thomas Hickman HospitalCritical access hospital66FTE
- Meriwether Lewis Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power60
- Meriwether Lewis ConnectLong-distance telephone carriers, wired31
- Farmers FriendFarm product warehousing and storage29
- CentervilleMail and parcel delivery24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 444 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Centerville’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 Hickman County.
Centerville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Centerville$243,251
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Centerville listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Centerville38.00%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Centerville53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Centerville7
Zip codes with a Centerville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Centerville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.