Gray, Tennessee.
Typical home $304,301 (+1.1% in a year). Johnson City, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $47 (-3%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $3,383 +1%
- $300,918$304,301 since Sep 2025
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.
- Gray$1,597
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Gray, TN rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Gray, Washington County, Tennessee
Gray, in Washington County, had 1,293 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gray is a small community in Washington County, Tennessee, with a population that is small enough for neighbors to know one another. Homes here are valued above what is typical across much of the country, while household incomes in the county sit a little below the national middle. Winters are cold but not severe, with some snow each year, and summers turn warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include East Tennessee State University, Johnson City Medical Center and Johnson City Schools. Unemployment in the county has stayed steady over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Boone Lake, a reservoir, lies in or beside town, and so does the Gray Fossil Site, a protected area. Warriors' Path State Park is a short drive away, as is the Watauga River. For a longer outing, Bristol Motor Speedway, a race track, is a longer drive away.
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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 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 9 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bristol Tri City Airport weather station, 5 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; Gray has two 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gray’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 Washington County and the Johnson City, TN metro.
Gray home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gray$304,301
- 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.
- Gray8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gray address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gray — 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.