Finger, Tennessee.
Typical home $169,934 (+3.7% in a year). Jackson, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$438 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,141 +4%
- $163,792$169,934 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,779 +13%
- $150,154$169,934 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.
- Finger$892
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Finger, TN rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Finger, McNairy County, Tennessee
Finger is a city of 276 people in McNairy County. Half its households earn more than $53,750 a year and half less, against $53,473 across McNairy County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in McNairy County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McNairy County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Finger is a very small city in McNairy County, Tennessee, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run close to the county's, and homes sit at a modest typical value. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a small share of people work from home.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across McNairy County, the largest workplaces include McNairy County Schools, the Monogram Refrigeration plant in Selmer, and ABB, which makes electrical conductors. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are historical and outdoor ones, each a longer drive away. Pinson Mounds is an archaeological site, and Shiloh National Military Park is another, while Chickasaw State Park is a protected area for time outdoors. Winters are cool, with highs near the freezing mark on the coldest days, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What people in McNairy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McNairy County had 5,581 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Henderson West weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McNairy County
- McNairy County SchoolsSchool district616FTE
- Supply Chain : Monogram Refrigeration, LLC, SelmerRefrigerator/freezer combinations, household-type, manufacturing504
- ABBBus bars, electrical conductors, manufacturing250
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters208
- Phillips 66 CompanyLubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum102
- Selmer Post AcuteSkilled nursing facilities101
- Pickwick Electric CooperativeElectric power distribution systems75
- Ripley Industries - AdamsvillePresses, metal baling, manufacturing70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,668 people in all across the county; Finger has none 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Finger’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 McNairy County and the Jackson, TN metro.
Finger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Finger$169,934
- 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 Finger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Finger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.