Lafollette, Tennessee.
Typical home $233,877 (+3.4% in a year). Knoxville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$747 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,735 +3%
- $226,142$233,877 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,019 +42%
- $164,858$233,877 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.
- Lafollette$1,228
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Lafollette, TN rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lafollette, Campbell County, Tennessee
Lafollette is a city of 7,430 people in Campbell County. Half its households earn more than $37,581 a year and half less, against $51,557 across Campbell County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 40% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 60% are rented. Unemployment in Campbell County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lafollette is a small city in Campbell County where the population is on the younger side of middle age. Incomes run well below the county's, and a good many residents live below the poverty line. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you would find in most places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January days that stay chilly and nights that fall below freezing, and snow is light. Summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in town include BSH Home Appliances, which makes cooking ranges, along with DeRoyal, a surgical supplies maker, and Lafollette Medical Center. Unemployment in Campbell County is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Cove Lake State Park and Norris Dam State Park are both a short drive away and are good choices for time outdoors. Norris Lake, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away, as is the Museum of Appalachia, which looks at the region's history and way of life.
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- 3,350households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Campbell County had 9,318 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 3 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norris weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lafollette
- BSH Home Appliances Corporation - LaFolletteRanges, household-type cooking, manufacturing251
- Lafollette Medical CenterGeneral hospital219FTE
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities128
- DeRoyal LaFolletteSurgical supplies manufacturing119
- City of LaFolletteCity and town managers' offices114
- Food LionGrocery stores53
- La FolletteMail and parcel delivery29
- Compass Group22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,039 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of LafolletteRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lafollette’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Campbell County and the Knoxville, TN metro.
Lafollette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lafollette$233,877
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lafollette listings, and the typical home goes pending in 56 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.
- Lafollette30.86%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Lafollette56
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lafollette142
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lafollette26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lafollette$302,329
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lafollette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lafollette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.