Duck River, Tennessee.
Typical home $285,464 (+1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$101 (+7%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $5,424 +2%
- $280,040$285,464 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.
- Duck River$1,498
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Duck River, TN rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Duck River, Hickman County, Tennessee
The Census does not count Duck River on its own, so the figures here are Hickman County's. Half the county's households earn more than $68,247 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% 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 people in Hickman County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Duck River is a town in Hickman County, Tennessee, where most homes are lived in by their owners, more than across the country. Winters are cold but mild by northern standards, summers are hot, and the area is wet, with a lot of rain across the year. Incomes run below the national typical, and typical home values sit well under it.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, building trades and retail shops. Across Hickman County, fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, unemployment edged up over the past year, and jobs grew slightly. The drive to work is longer than most of the country's, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Ugly Creek runs in or beside town, and Blue Buck Creek is a short drive away for anyone who likes to spend time on the water. McKamey Manor, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away.
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- 9,435households
- 42.3median age
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Hickman County 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 50° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Centerville Water Pl weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hickman County
- Hickman County SchoolsSchool district474FTE
- Promises Behavioral HealthAlcoholism rehabilitation facilities, residential141
- Accurate Energetic SystemsExplosives manufacturing132
- Precision Parcel Logistics111
- Life Care Center of CentervilleConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals106
- Distant Winds Logistics100
- Agrana Fruit US, Inc. CentervilleFruit syrups, flavoring, manufacturing90
- Sole Supports, Inc. LylesArch supports, orthopedic, manufacturing77
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,150 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hickman County, 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 Hickman County.
Duck River home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Duck River$285,464
- 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 Duck River address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Duck River — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.