Greenback, Tennessee.
Typical home $446,298 (+4.5% in a year). Knoxville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,426 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,293 +5%
- $427,005$446,298 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,679 +39%
- $320,618$446,298 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.
- Greenback$2,343
- 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 Greenback, TN rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greenback, Loudon County, Tennessee
Greenback is a city of 1,102 people in Loudon County. Unemployment in Loudon County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greenback is a small city where homes are expensive for the area, and household incomes in Loudon County run high. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are cold but not severe, with only a little snow and a fair amount of rain through the year, and summers turn properly hot by July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and shops also employing many. Across Loudon County, the biggest workplaces include Loudon County Schools, MalibuBoats and Kimberly Clark. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away is Fort Loudoun, a historic fort, and the Tellico River is close enough for an easy outing. Smoky Mountain Speedway, a race track, is also a short drive away. For a longer trip, Neyland Stadium, the well-known stadium, is a longer drive away.
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- 455households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Loudon County had 18,013 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 4 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lenoir City weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Loudon County
- Loudon County SchoolsSchool district639FTE
- MalibuBoatsBoat yards525
- Monterey Mushrooms, Inc Loudon FacilityMushroom farming470
- Primient Loudon PlantSyrup, corn, made by wet milling375
- Kimberly Clark Corp. LoudonTissue manufacturing371
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters336
- Lenoir City SchoolsSchool district324FTE
- Hubbell Lenoir CityPrecast concrete products manufacturing293
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,226 people in all across the county; Greenback 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Greenback’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 Loudon County and the Knoxville, TN metro.
Greenback home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenback$446,298
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Greenback 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.
- Greenback35.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Greenback53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Greenback14
Zip codes with a Greenback address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenback — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.