Middleton, Tennessee.
Typical home $181,618 (+10.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$581 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,649 +10%
- $164,970$181,618 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,906 +44%
- $125,712$181,618 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.
- Middleton$953
- 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 Middleton, TN rose 10.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Middleton, Hardeman County, Tennessee
Middleton is a city of 658 people in Hardeman County. Unemployment in Hardeman County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hardeman 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middleton is a very small city in Hardeman County, Tennessee, with a population younger than in much of the country. Homes here are valued below what is typical nationally, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and short, with only a dusting of snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Hardeman County, the largest workplaces include TK Elevator Middleton MFG, Hardeman County Schools and Kilgore Flares Co. Unemployment in the county is slightly higher than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has dipped, so the local job market has been soft. Most people face a fairly long drive to work.
Things to do. Big Hill Pond State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Tuscumbia River. Davis Bridge Battlefield, an archaeological site from the Civil War, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Chickasaw State Park is farther off, and so is the Corinth Depot, a museum.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Hardeman County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hardeman County had 6,396 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer 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 90° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bolivar Wtr Wks weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hardeman County
- TK Elevator Middleton MFGPrimarily engaged in manufacturing elevators and moving stairways863
- Hardeman County SchoolsSchool district432FTE
- Kilgore Flares CoPyrotechnics manufacturing349
- Western Mental Hlth InstitPsychiatric hospital236FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters222
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores66
- Bolivar General HospitalCritical access hospital56FTE
- F. L. Crane & Sons SkidsSkids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,758 people in all across the county; Middleton 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Middleton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Hardeman County.
Middleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middleton$181,618
- 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.
- Middleton14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Middleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.