Linden, Tennessee.
Typical home $170,024 (+2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$461 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,301 +3%
- $165,723$170,024 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,932 +8%
- $158,092$170,024 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.
- Linden$892
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 48 years.
Typical home values in Linden, TN rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Linden, Perry County, Tennessee
Linden is a town of 997 people in Perry County. Unemployment in Perry County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Linden is a very small town, one of the smallest places a person is likely to look up, and the county seat of Perry County. Typical home values here are modest, and household incomes across the county run below the Tennessee norm for many families. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through much of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with the building trades, manufacturing and shops close behind. Across Perry County, some of the largest workplaces are NYX, Inc- Linden, which makes awnings and plastic and fiberglass goods, Perry County Schools, and the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and almost nobody works from home, so most jobs mean going to a worksite.
Things to do. Mousetail Landing State Park is a protected area a short drive away, a natural choice for a day outdoors. Salmon Branch and Cave Branch are both small rivers a short drive from town, and the Green River is a longer drive. For a longer outing, The Elephant Sanctuary is a zoo-like refuge a longer drive away.
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- 455households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 1,701 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 2 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Linden Wtp weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- NYX, Inc- LindenAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing310
- Perry County SchoolsSchool district208FTE
- Tennessee Baptist Mission BoardReligious organizations30
- #542 Food GiantSupermarkets and other grocery stores27
- Reliable ProductsExtruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 388 people in all across the county; Linden has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Linden’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 Perry County.
Linden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Linden$170,024
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Linden listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Linden19.99%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Linden35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Linden6
Zip codes with a Linden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.