Hohenwald, Tennessee.
Typical home $237,688 (+2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$739 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,118 +3%
- $231,569$237,688 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,117 +27%
- $186,571$237,688 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.
- Hohenwald$1,248
- 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 Hohenwald, TN rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tennessee
Hohenwald is a city of 3,668 people in Lewis County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Lewis County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hohenwald is a small city that serves as the seat of Lewis County, Tennessee. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value sits at a fairly modest level. Winters are cool and summers are warm, with August the warmest month, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Hohenwald are Lewis County Schools, Walmart and Lewis Park Post Acute. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home, so most travel to a job, and the typical commute is a little longer than a short hop across town.
Things to do. The Elephant Sanctuary, a zoo, sits in or beside town. A short drive away is the Little Buffalo River, and the Buffalo River is a longer drive off. For a different kind of outing, McKamey Manor, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,635households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 3,289 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in August, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hohenwald weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hohenwald
- Lewis County SchoolsSchool district235FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters204
- Lewis Park Post AcuteSkilled nursing facilities91
- Tennessee College of Applied Technology-HohenwaldTwo-year college44
- HighlandCorporate offices31
- Wedlake IndustriesCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins27
- Fuel TransportGasoline pipeline transportation24
- HohenwaldMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 419 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hohenwald’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Lewis County.
Hohenwald home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hohenwald$237,688
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Hohenwald listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Hohenwald34.75%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hohenwald73
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hohenwald14
Zip codes with a Hohenwald address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hohenwald — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.