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Fairmount, Tennessee.

A community in Hamilton County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Hamilton County’s.

Living in Fairmount, Hamilton County, Tennessee

Fairmount, in Hamilton County, had 2,193 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $137,317 a year and half less, against $76,183 across Hamilton County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hamilton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 2,193 in the 2020 census
Household income $137,317 the median, give or take $13,682 · Hamilton County: $76,183
Unemployment 3.5% Hamilton County, August 2026; 3.4% a year before
Homes 89% lived in by their owners; 11% rented
  • 766households
  • 50%of adults have a degree
  • 4%below the poverty line
  • 27 mintypical commute
  • 27%work from home

What people in Hamilton County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Manufacturing13%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Professional and business services10%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment9%
  • Banks, insurance and property9%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 219,580 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 48° and 28°; warmest in July, 88° and 66° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 48° 28° F M A M J J 88° 66° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 48° and 28°; warmest in July, 88° and 66° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 48° 28° F M A M J J 88° 66° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 4 inches of snow and 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Soddy Daisy-mowbray Mountain weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Hamilton County

  1. Hamilton County SchoolsSchool district6,512FTE
  2. USXpressContainer trucking services, long-distance6,267
  3. Erlanger Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,590FTE
  4. BlueCross BlueShield of TennesseeHealth insurance carriers, direct5,310
  5. Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga OperationsChassis, automobile, manufacturing3,981
  6. McKee FoodsCroutons and bread crumbs made in commercial bakeries3,175
  7. City of ChattanoogaExecutive offices, federal, state, and local2,618
  8. Memorial Health Care SystemGeneral hospital2,420FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 445 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82,961 people in all across the county; Fairmount has none 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. TornadoesRelatively high
  2. LandslidesRelatively moderate
  3. Strong windRelatively moderate
  4. Winter weatherRelatively moderate
  5. LightningRelatively 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 Fairmount’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 Hamilton County.