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Fairgarden, Tennessee.

. Sevierville, TN metro.

What it costs per month · Fairgarden $1,737/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$960 (+124%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Tennessee $1,737 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Tennessee$1,737
  • United States$1,922

Living in Fairgarden, Sevier County, Tennessee

Fairgarden, in Sevier County, had 481 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sevier County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sevier County work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.

People 481 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Fairgarden for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 2.9% Sevier County, August 2026; 2.8% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Fairgarden for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairgarden is a very small community in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the foothills country of the eastern part of the state. Winters are cold but short on snow, and summers run hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.

Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Sevier County, some of the largest workplaces are The Dollywood Company, Sevier County Schools and Swaggerty's Sausage. Unemployment across the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.

Things to do. Dollywood, an amusement park, and Douglas Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away, as is Mystery Mine, a tourist attraction. For more room to roam, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a longer drive away, as is the Pigeon River.

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  • 25 mintypical commute

What people in Sevier County work in

  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment22%
  • Schools, hospitals and social care15%
  • Shops (retail)15%
  • Building trades10%
  • Professional and business services9%
  • Manufacturing8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sevier County had 53,214 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 49° and 27°; warmest in July, 90° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 49° 27° F M A M J J 90° 67° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 49° and 27°; warmest in July, 90° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 49° 27° F M A M J J 90° 67° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 4 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sevierville weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Sevier County

  1. The Dollywood CompanyAmusement parks3,170
  2. AnakeestaTheme parks, amusement2,868
  3. Sevier County SchoolsSchool district2,185FTE
  4. Charles Blalock & SonsHighway construction684
  5. Swaggerty's SausageProcessed meats manufacturing570
  6. Wilderness at the Smokies River LodgeResort hotels without casinos495
  7. Westgate ResortsHotels, resort, without casinos441
  8. Leconte Medical CenterGeneral hospital430FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 94 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,815 people in all across the county; Fairgarden has one 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

  1. LightningRelatively high
  2. LandslidesRelatively moderate
  3. Winter weatherRelatively moderate
  4. Strong windRelatively moderate
  5. Cold wavesRelatively moderate
  6. Inland floodingRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairgarden’s census tracts, 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 Sevier County and the Sevierville, TN metro.

Fairgarden home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Fairgarden address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairgarden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.