Hampton, Tennessee.
Typical home $209,925 (-0.4% in a year). Johnson City, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$629 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $871 -0%
- $210,796$209,925 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,030 +28%
- $163,895$209,925 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.
- Hampton$1,102
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hampton, TN fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hampton, Carter County, Tennessee
Hampton, in Carter County, had 2,030 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Carter County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 5.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hampton is a small community in Carter County, in the mountains of northeast Tennessee. Residents tend to be older than in the typical American town, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and a little snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and transport and warehousing also employing a good number. Across Carter County, the largest workplaces include Carter County Schools, Snap-on Tools and Elizabethton Schools. The usual trip to work is a fairly short drive, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. The Little Doe River runs in or beside town, and Roan Mountain State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area, also a short drive away, preserves a piece of the area's frontier history. For a longer outing, Watauga Lake is a reservoir a longer drive from town.
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- 824households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carter County had 12,639 jobs in 2025, 5.1% more 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 64°. About 6 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elizabethton weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carter County
- Carter County SchoolsSchool district842FTE
- Snap-on ToolsTools, hand, metal blade462
- Elizabethton SchoolsSchool district439FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters380
- Milligan UniversityUniversity or college324
- AYMWaterworks and municipal water system valves manufacturing244
- Sycamore Shoals HospitalGeneral hospital216FTE
- Life Care Center of ElizabethtonSkilled nursing facilities198
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,141 people in all across the county; Hampton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hampton’s 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 Carter County and the Johnson City, TN metro.
Hampton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hampton$209,925
- 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.
- Hampton13
Zip codes with a Hampton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hampton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.