Dandridge, Tennessee.
Typical home $381,325 (+0.6% in a year). Morristown, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,163 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,361 +1%
- $378,964$381,325 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,300 +30%
- $294,025$381,325 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.
- Dandridge$2,001
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Dandridge, TN rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee
Dandridge is a town of 3,344 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $53,507 a year and half less, against $66,114 across Jefferson County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dandridge is a small town in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes carry a typical value well above what the local incomes might suggest, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold but not severe, with only light snow, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow arrive in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in town are Jefferson County Schools, the Jefferson County nursing home and K VA T Food Stores. Commutes are fairly long, and a small share of people work from home. Across the county, jobs were slightly fewer last year than the year before, while unemployment has held steady.
Things to do. Douglas Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a longer drive, as is Dollywood, an amusement park. Cherokee National Forest, a protected area, also lies a longer drive away.
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- 1,339households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 13,797 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 63°. About 3 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jefferson City weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dandridge
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district1,038FTE
- Jefferson County nursing homeNursing homes233
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket170
- Overman USAFurniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing66
- DandridgeMail and parcel delivery30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 499 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dandridge’s census tracts, 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 Jefferson County and the Morristown, TN metro.
Dandridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dandridge$381,325
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Dandridge listings, and the typical home goes pending in 51 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.
- Dandridge32.67%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Dandridge51
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dandridge187
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dandridge42
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Dandridge$413,699
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Dandridge96.79%
Zip codes with a Dandridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dandridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.