Gates, Tennessee.
Typical home $135,887 (+14.9% in a year). Brownsville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$405 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,663 +15%
- $118,224$135,887 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,475 +24%
- $109,412$135,887 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.
- Gates$713
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Gates, TN rose 14.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gates, Haywood County, Tennessee
Gates is a town of 664 people in Haywood County. Unemployment in Haywood County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 21.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Haywood County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gates is a very small town in Haywood County, Tennessee, with a home population that is among the smaller ones you will find in the state. Typical home values here are modest, and incomes in Haywood County run below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Snow is rare and light, while rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many people. The commute is on the long side, and few people work from home. Across Haywood County, the largest workplaces include Teknor Apex Tennessee Company, Haywood County Schools and Westlake Pipe & Fittings. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has noticeably fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Ripley Fire Lookout Tower, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and to Fort Pillow State Park, an archaeological site. The Forked Deer River, also a longer drive away, is another spot for time outdoors.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 35 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Haywood County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Haywood County had 6,337 jobs in 2025, 21.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ripley weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Haywood County
- Teknor Apex Tennessee CompanyCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins720
- Haywood County SchoolsSchool district531FTE
- Westlake Pipe & FittingsPipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing401
- BlueOval SKLithium batteries manufacturing254
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters228
- The Pictsweet Company - Corporate OfficeVegetables, frozen, manufacturing173
- Precision CoilsAir-conditioning equipment manufacturing140
- Haywood Post AcuteNursing homes90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,497 people in all across the county; Gates 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gates’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Haywood County and the Brownsville, TN metro.
Gates home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gates$135,887
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gates7
Zip codes with a Gates address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gates — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.