Monteagle, Tennessee.
Typical home $331,078 (+2.3% in a year). Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$974 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,344 +2%
- $323,734$331,078 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,619 +26%
- $263,458$331,078 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.
- Monteagle$1,738
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Monteagle, TN rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monteagle, Marion County, Tennessee
Monteagle is a town of 1,393 people in Marion County. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monteagle is a small town in Marion County, Tennessee, and most homes in town are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year. Incomes in the county run below the national picture, and unemployment across Marion County has stayed steady from one year to the next.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and government also employing many. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Lodge Manufacturing, Marion County Schools and Komatsu America. Some people work from home, and a good number of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. South Cumberland State Park is a short drive away, as is the Fiery Gizzard Trail, a well-known walking trail. The Elk River, also a short drive off, is a river for time on the water. For a longer outing, Nickajack Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 726households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 8,350 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 65°. About 5 inches of snow and 67 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monteagle weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Lodge ManufacturingFerrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished554
- Marion County SchoolsSchool district547FTE
- Komatsu AmericaConstruction machinery manufacturing469
- Valmont Industries333
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- Ply Gem JasperSiding, plastics, manufacturing293
- Mueller Water ProductsWaterworks and municipal water system valves manufacturing249
- Colonial ChemicalWetting agents manufacturing169
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,254 people in all across the county; Monteagle has one 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of MonteagleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Monteagle’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 Marion County and the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
Monteagle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monteagle$331,078
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Monteagle 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.
- Monteagle21.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Monteagle27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Monteagle6
Zip codes with a Monteagle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monteagle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.