Fall Branch, Tennessee.
Typical home $286,688 (+3.1% in a year). Johnson City, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$911 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,732 +3%
- $277,956$286,688 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,448 +38%
- $208,240$286,688 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.
- Fall Branch$1,505
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Fall Branch, TN rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fall Branch, Washington County, Tennessee
Fall Branch, in Washington County, had 1,248 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $50,208 a year and half less, against $62,809 across Washington County. Unemployment in Washington 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 Washington County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fall Branch is a small community in Washington County, in the hills of northeast Tennessee. Household incomes in town run below the county's, while the typical home is valued fairly high. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are the Veterans Health Administration, East Tennessee State University and Johnson City Medical Center. Joblessness in the county is about where it stood a year earlier, and the county has a few fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Holston River is a short drive away, as are Warriors' Path State Park and Bays Mountain Park, which are good for walking and being outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Bristol Motor Speedway, a race track, and to Boone Lake, a reservoir.
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What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 63,282 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 5 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kingsport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,610
- East Tennessee State UniversityUniversity or college2,507
- Johnson City Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,993FTE
- Johnson City SchoolsSchool district1,352FTE
- Washington County SchoolsSchool district1,146FTE
- AO Smith Fairview AveHot water heaters, household-type, manufacturing995
- Summers TaylorRoad construction568
- TPIInduction heating equipment, industrial process-type, manufacturing440
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,169 people in all across the county; Fall Branch has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fall Branch’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Washington County and the Johnson City, TN metro.
Fall Branch home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fall Branch$286,688
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fall Branch13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Fall Branch address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fall Branch — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.