Milton, Tennessee.
Typical home $618,874 (+3.1% in a year). Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,319 (+68%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $18,575 +3%
- $600,299$618,874 since Sep 2025
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.
- Milton$3,248
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Milton, TN rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milton, Rutherford County, Tennessee
The Census does not count Milton on its own, so the figures here are Rutherford County's. Half the county's households earn more than $85,470 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 65% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Rutherford County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rutherford County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milton is a small town in Rutherford County, in Middle Tennessee. Across Rutherford County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people here are of a wide range of ages. Incomes are generally healthy, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many parts of the country.
Work. Across Rutherford County, the unemployment rate has stayed low and steady over the past year. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in professional and business services. Some people work from home, and a good share of adults hold a college degree.
Things to do. The Nashville Superspeedway, a race track, is a longer drive away and is among the better-known sites in the area. Cedars of Lebanon State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive, and it offers a quiet place to spend a day outdoors. The Arts Center of Cannon County, a museum, is a short drive away and makes a pleasant outing close to home.
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- 129,431households
- 34.2median age
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Rutherford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rutherford County had 148,438 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 66°. About 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woodbury Wnw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rutherford County
- NissanAutomobile manufacturing6,430
- Rutherford County SchoolsSchool district5,388FTE
- Middle Tennessee State UniversityUniversity or college2,497
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,128
- City of MurfreesboroGeneral services departments, government1,970
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,733
- Taylor Farms Tennessee/ SouthVegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing1,691
- Saint Thomas Rutherford HospitalGeneral hospital1,622FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 303 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 53,085 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rutherford County, 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 Rutherford County and the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro.
Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milton$618,874
- 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.
- Milton7
Zip codes with a Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.