Dresden, Tennessee.
Typical home $180,096 (+8.3% in a year). Martin, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$575 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,748 +8%
- $166,348$180,096 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,475 +42%
- $126,621$180,096 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.
- Dresden$945
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Dresden, TN rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dresden, Weakley County, Tennessee
Dresden is a town of 3,019 people in Weakley County. Half its households earn more than $51,000 a year and half less, against $51,880 across Weakley County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Weakley County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Weakley 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dresden is a small town in Weakley County, Tennessee, and it feels like one: a community where people know one another and life moves at an easy pace. Household incomes here sit a little below the county's, and a modest share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are priced within reach of many buyers, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and mostly free of snow, summers run hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Dresden are Weakley County Schools, FedEx Freight and Bunzl Retail Services. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year earlier, and the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before. Some residents work from home, though most head out to a workplace.
Things to do. The Varsity Theatre in Martin is a theatre a short drive away, the closest of the nearby options. A longer drive brings you to Big Cypress Tree State Park, a protected area, and to the Obion River, which suits time spent by the water. Discovery Park of America, a museum, is also a longer drive away and makes a good day out.
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- 1,530households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Weakley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Weakley County had 10,635 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 54 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dresden weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dresden
- Weakley County SchoolsSchool district632FTE
- FedEx FreightLess than truckload general freight trucking45
- Bunzl Retail Services, LLC (DBA BRS Dresden)Industrial and personal service paper merchant wholesalers20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 65 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dresden’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Weakley County and the Martin, TN metro.
Dresden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dresden$180,096
- 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.
- Dresden16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dresden6
Zip codes with a Dresden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dresden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.