Darden, Tennessee.
Typical home $237,340 (+11.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$567 (+83%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $24,897 +12%
- $212,443$237,340 since Sep 2025
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.
- Darden$1,246
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Darden, TN rose 11.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Darden, Henderson County, Tennessee
Darden, in Henderson County, had 364 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Henderson County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henderson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Darden is a very small community in Henderson County, Tennessee, where almost every home is lived in by its owners, far more than across the county or the country. Typical home values sit at a modest level, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with only a dusting of snow most years and plenty of rain through the seasons.
Work. People who live in Darden work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in restaurants and hotels. Across Henderson County, the largest workplaces include Nidec, Leroy Somer, which makes motor generator sets, Henderson County Schools, and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Water is close at hand: Browns Creek and Big Creek run in or beside town, and Haley Creek and Lick Creek are a short drive away. For a day out, Mousetail Landing State Park and Natchez Trace State Park are both a longer drive away, and Pinson Mounds, an archaeological site, is in the same longer-drive range.
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What people in Henderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 8,197 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Parsons Wtp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- Nidec, Leroy SomerMotor generator sets manufacturing667
- Henderson County SchoolsSchool district599FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters346
- Fluid Routing SolutionsPlastics and rubber belts and hoses manufacturing293
- WabtecExchangers, heat, manufacturing245
- Volvo Penta LexingtonMarine engines manufacturing126
- Dewayne's Quality Metal CoatingsElectroplating metals and formed products for the trade117
- Henderson County Community HospitalGeneral hospital109FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,318 people in all across the county; Darden 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Darden’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 Henderson County.
Darden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Darden$237,340
- 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.
Zip codes with a Darden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Darden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.