Jamestown, Tennessee.
Typical home $229,986 (+2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$755 (+167%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,754 +3%
- $224,232$229,986 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,096 +32%
- $173,889$229,986 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.
- Jamestown$1,207
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Jamestown, TN rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jamestown, Fentress County, Tennessee
Jamestown is a city of 1,935 people in Fentress County. Unemployment in Fentress County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fentress 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jamestown is a small city and the seat of Fentress County, on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Homes here cost less than the typical home across much of the country, and incomes in the county run below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home, so most residents travel to a workplace in or near town. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights that fall below freezing, and some snow each year. Summers are warm in July, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing a good share. Some of the largest workplaces in Jamestown are Walmart, Signature Healthcare and Quality Home Health. Unemployment across Fentress County is low and close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park is a protected area a short drive away. Farther out, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is a large protected area a longer drive away, and Pickett Civilian Conservation Corps Memorial State Park is another. Caney Fork, a river, is also a longer drive away.
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- 969households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Fentress County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fentress County had 5,947 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jamestown weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jamestown
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters213
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities89
- Quality Home HealthHome health agencies48
- Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute SchoolsSchool district45FTE
- JamestownMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 375 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jamestown’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 Fentress County.
Jamestown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jamestown$229,986
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Jamestown listings, and the typical home goes pending in 70 days — 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.
- Jamestown23.54%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Jamestown70
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jamestown183
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jamestown31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Jamestown$189,199
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Jamestown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jamestown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.