Dyer, Tennessee.
Typical home $155,302 (+5.0% in a year). Jackson, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$420 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,331 +5%
- $147,971$155,302 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,175 +12%
- $138,127$155,302 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.
- Dyer$815
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Dyer, TN rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee
Dyer is a city of 2,308 people in Gibson County. Unemployment in Gibson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 9.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gibson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dyer is a small city in Gibson County, Tennessee, and a quiet one. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and a good number of households live on incomes below the county's, with more people below the poverty line than many places. Winters are cool and fairly mild, with only a little snow, and summers get hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Gibson County, some of the largest workplaces are Tyson Farms, a poultry processor, along with the county's school districts and Walmart. The county has added jobs over the past year, and the daily drive to work is a fairly long one for a town this size, with almost nobody working from home.
Things to do. The Obion River, a river within a short drive, is the closest place to get outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Big Cypress Tree State Park, a protected area, and to Discovery Park of America, a museum. Davy Crockett Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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- 873households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Gibson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gibson County had 16,381 jobs in 2025, 9.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milan Experiment Station weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gibson County
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,784
- Gibson Co Sp Dist SchoolsSchool district508FTE
- Milan SchoolsSchool district374FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters272
- Reinhausen ManufacturingVoltage regulating transformers, electric power, manufacturing265
- Max TransMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload245
- FedExCourier and express delivery services243
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,104 people in all across the county; Dyer has two of its own. 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dyer’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 Gibson County and the Jackson, TN metro.
Dyer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dyer$155,302
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Dyer listings — 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dyer17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dyer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dyer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.