Clinton, Tennessee.
Typical home $332,436 (+3.4% in a year). Knoxville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,070 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,964 +3%
- $321,472$332,436 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,368 +38%
- $240,068$332,436 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.
- Clinton$1,745
- 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 Clinton, TN rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clinton, Anderson County, Tennessee
Clinton is a city of 10,056 people in Anderson County. Half its households earn more than $68,882 a year and half less, against $66,183 across Anderson County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Anderson County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clinton is a small city and the seat of Anderson County, in the hills of East Tennessee. Household incomes are somewhat above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent. Winters are cold but not severe, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing a good share. Among the biggest workplaces in Clinton are Anderson County Schools, SL America, which makes motor vehicle electric equipment and brake systems, and Walmart. A typical commute is fairly short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Green McAdoo School, a museum in or beside town, is the nearest stop. A short drive away are the Museum of Appalachia, the American Museum of Science and Energy, and Norris Dam State Park, a protected area. Zoo Knoxville and Neyland Stadium are a longer drive away.
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- 4,355households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anderson County had 46,595 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oak Ridge Asos weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton
- Anderson County SchoolsSchool district1,193FTE
- SL AmericaMotor vehicle electric equipment608
- SL AmericaMotor vehicle brake systems395
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters322
- Techmer PMCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins287
- The Carlstar GroupTires manufacturing224
- ShawmutLaminating purchased textiles178
- Clinton SchoolsSchool district141FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,627 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Clinton’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 Anderson County and the Knoxville, TN metro.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$332,436
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Clinton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 days — 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.
- Clinton31.52%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clinton113
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clinton31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Clinton$339,348
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Clinton98.63%
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.