Lancing, Tennessee.
Typical home $197,059 (+3.3% in a year). Knoxville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$560 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,240 +3%
- $190,819$197,059 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,890 +20%
- $164,169$197,059 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.
- Lancing$1,034
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Lancing, TN rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lancing, Morgan County, Tennessee
The Census does not count Lancing on its own, so the figures here are Morgan County's. Half the county's households earn more than $65,954 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 85% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Morgan County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 12.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morgan County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lancing is a small community in Morgan County, in the hills of east Tennessee. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and renting is less common than in many parts of the country. Household incomes sit below the county's median, and a noticeable share of households live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a college degree than the national average, and many residents commute by car rather than working from home.
Work. Across Morgan County, the largest employers are in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by building trades, professional and business services, and manufacturing. The number of jobs fell over the past year, and unemployment has risen a little compared with a year earlier. Many residents travel some distance to their workplaces.
Things to do. Frozen Head State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and offers wooded trails and quiet hills. Ozone Falls, a waterfall, and the Clinch River, a river, are both a longer drive away. Visitors who enjoy water and forest scenery will find these a good way to spend a day.
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- 7,188households
- 42.3median age
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Morgan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morgan County had 3,158 jobs in 2025, 12.7% fewer 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 86° and lows near 63°. About 5 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lancing Northwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morgan County
- Morgan County SchoolsSchool district464FTE
- Cobb-vantressChicken egg production207
- Morgan County FinanceExecutive offices, federal, state, and local190
- Heraeus Precious Metals North AmericaPrecious metals recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals125
- Life Care of MorganNursing homes96
- Sunbright VegetationTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line80
- Tennessee College of Applied Technology-HarrimanTwo-year college28
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,272 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Morgan County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Morgan County and the Knoxville, TN metro.
Lancing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lancing$197,059
- 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.
- Lancing14
Zip codes with a Lancing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lancing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.