Jasper, Tennessee.
Typical home $258,852 (+0.6% in a year). Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$775 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,641 +1%
- $257,211$258,852 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,751 +35%
- $191,101$258,852 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.
- Jasper$1,359
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Jasper, TN rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jasper, Marion County, Tennessee
Jasper is a town of 3,612 people in Marion County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jasper is a small town and the seat of Marion County, Tennessee. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the people who live in town are somewhat younger than in many small towns. Winters are cold but short of harsh, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in banks, insurance and property, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in manufacturing. Some of the largest workplaces in Jasper are Marion County Schools, Ply Gem Jasper and Parkridge West Hospital. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Little Sequatchie River runs in or beside town, and the Sequatchie River and Nickajack Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away. Nickajack Cave, a protected area, is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Ruby Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,394households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 8,350 jobs in 2025, 0.1% 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 88° and lows near 68°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bridgeport Northwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper
- Marion County SchoolsSchool district547FTE
- Ply Gem JasperSiding, plastics, manufacturing293
- Parkridge West HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical42
- Marion County Highway DepartmentPothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 361 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jasper’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 Marion County and the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
Jasper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jasper$258,852
- 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.
- Jasper17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jasper6
Zip codes with a Jasper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jasper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.