Mascot, Tennessee.
Typical home $282,932 (+2.7% in a year). Knoxville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$946 (+175%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,506 +3%
- $275,426$282,932 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,458 +48%
- $191,474$282,932 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.
- Mascot$1,485
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Mascot, TN rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mascot, Knox County, Tennessee
Mascot, in Knox County, had 2,760 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $60,250 a year and half less, against $74,222 across Knox County. Unemployment in Knox County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knox County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mascot is a small community in Knox County, Tennessee, with a population on the smaller side. Household incomes here run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with only a little snow, and summers turn hot. Rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Knox County, some of the largest workplaces are Knox County Schools, the University of Tennessee Medical Center and South College. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Zoo Knoxville is a short drive away, as is Chilhowee Park, a city park. A longer drive brings you to the Knoxville Museum of Art, and farther still to Norris Lake, a reservoir popular for time on the water. Dollywood, the amusement park, also lies a longer drive off.
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- 1,286households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Knox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 262,703 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 4 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sevierville weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knox County
- Knox County SchoolsSchool district7,670FTE
- University of Tennessee Medical CentGeneral hospital5,035FTE
- Functional PathwaysHomes for the elderly with nursing care2,362
- South CollegeUniversity or college1,884
- City of Knoxville1,712
- Parkwest Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,638FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,466
- Fort Sanders Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,414FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 452 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 66,215 people in all across the county; Mascot has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mascot’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 Knox County and the Knoxville, TN metro.
Mascot home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mascot$282,932
- 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.
- Mascot13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mascot4
Zip codes with a Mascot address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mascot — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.