Elora, Tennessee.
Typical home $259,096 (+6.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$796 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,676 +6%
- $244,420$259,096 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,900 +34%
- $193,197$259,096 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.
- Elora$1,360
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Elora, TN rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elora, Lincoln County, Tennessee
The Census does not count Elora on its own, so the figures here are Lincoln County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,667 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elora is a small town in Lincoln County, Tennessee, where most people know their neighbors and many homes have been in the same families for years. The county's residents are older on average than the country as a whole, and most homes across Lincoln County are lived in by their owners. Household incomes tend to sit below the national middle, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country. Winters are cold and snow is rare, while summers are hot and the rainfall is heavier than most of the country sees.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in local shops, and in the building trades. Across the county, jobs fell over the most recent year, and unemployment is a touch higher than it was a year earlier. Few people work from home, so most daily work means traveling out of the house.
Things to do. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is a museum about space and rocketry, a longer drive away. Tims Ford State Park is a protected area of woods and water, also a longer drive away. The Huntsville Museum of Art is another museum in the area, likewise a longer drive away.
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- 14,849households
- 42.9median age
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 9,796 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayetteville Wtp weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Frito LAYOther snack food manufacturing887
- Lincoln County SchoolsSchool district575FTE
- First Brands GroupMotor vehicle trimmings manufacturing334
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters305
- Lincoln Medical CenterGeneral hospital293FTE
- Copperweld Bimetallics LLC -Cotton MillCopper products made by rolling, drawing, or extruding purchased copper205
- HIROTEC Manufacturing AmericaManufacture of exhaust systems185
- Fayetteville SchoolsSchool district183FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,991 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lincoln 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 Lincoln County.
Elora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elora$259,096
- 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.
Zip codes with a Elora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.