Erin, Tennessee.
Typical home $225,255 (+10.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$707 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,680 +10%
- $204,575$225,255 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,661 +34%
- $167,594$225,255 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.
- Erin$1,182
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Erin, TN rose 10.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Erin, Houston County, Tennessee
Erin is a city of 1,224 people in Houston County. Unemployment in Houston County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Houston County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Erin is a small city and the seat of Houston County, Tennessee, and it has the feel of a place where people know one another. Incomes across Houston County sit below the county-level picture for much of the country, and a good share of the town's residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is priced modestly. Winters are cold but not severe, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents of Erin work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Across Houston County, the largest workplaces are Houston County Schools, Signature Healthcare and Houston County Community Hospital. Unemployment in the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the county has gained jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a moderate one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Most of the places worth a trip from Erin are a longer drive away, and many of them are about history and the outdoors. Fort Donelson National Battlefield is the best known, a Civil War site that includes the fort itself. Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for walking and watching wildlife, and Dunbar Cave State Park is another protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 459households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Houston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 1,478 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tennessee Ridge weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Houston County SchoolsSchool district297FTE
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities113
- Houston County Community HospitalCritical access hospital87FTE
- ErinMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 133 people in all across the county; Erin has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Erin’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 Houston County.
Erin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Erin$225,255
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Erin listings — 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Erin19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Erin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Erin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.