Kenton, Tennessee.
Typical home $151,656 (+8.7% in a year). Jackson, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$424 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,166 +9%
- $139,490$151,656 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,457 +24%
- $122,198$151,656 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.
- Kenton$796
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Kenton, TN rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kenton, Gibson County, Tennessee
Kenton is a town of 1,205 people in Gibson County. Half its households earn more than $41,525 a year and half less, against $62,755 across Gibson County. Unemployment in Gibson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 9.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gibson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kenton is a small town in Gibson County, Tennessee, home to a small community. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily drive to work is a fairly long one, with only a small number of people working from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Gibson County, some of the largest workplaces are Tyson Farms, a poultry processor, the Gibson County Special School District, and Reinhausen Manufacturing, which makes voltage regulating transformers. Unemployment across the county has risen only slightly over the past year, while the number of jobs grew noticeably over the last year.
Things to do. The Obion River and Big Cypress Tree State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away, and suit a quiet afternoon outdoors. Farther afield, Reelfoot Lake is a longer drive, as is Discovery Park of America, a museum. Winters are cold but bring very little snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
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- 583households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Gibson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gibson County had 16,381 jobs in 2025, 9.9% 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 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Martin U Of T Branch East weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gibson County
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,784
- Gibson Co Sp Dist SchoolsSchool district508FTE
- Milan SchoolsSchool district374FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters272
- Reinhausen ManufacturingVoltage regulating transformers, electric power, manufacturing265
- Max TransMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload245
- FedExCourier and express delivery services243
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,104 people in all across the county; Kenton has none of its own. 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of KentonRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of KentonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kenton’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 Gibson County and the Jackson, TN metro.
Kenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kenton$151,656
- 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.
- Kenton12
Zip codes with a Kenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.