Newcomb, Tennessee.
Typical home $158,038 (+6.8% in a year). Knoxville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$324 (+64%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $9,997 +7%
- $148,041$158,038 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.
- Newcomb$830
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Newcomb, TN rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newcomb, Campbell County, Tennessee
The Census does not count Newcomb on its own, so the figures here are Campbell County's. Half the county's households earn more than $51,557 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 69% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Campbell County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Campbell 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newcomb is a small town in Campbell County, in the hills of East Tennessee. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many neighbors know one another well. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm, while rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades, or in local shops. Unemployment in the county has risen somewhat over the past year, and the number of jobs has slipped a little. Few people work from home, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Indian Mountain State Park is a protected area a short drive away, good for getting out into the hills. Cumberland Falls, a waterfall, and the Museum of Appalachia are both a longer drive away, and each is among the better known places nearby.
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- 17,186households
- 44.2median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Campbell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Campbell County had 9,318 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newcomb weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Campbell County
- Campbell County SchoolsSchool district849FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters334
- GC15 Caryville, Gold Creek FoodsPoultry processing - cook plant291
- BSH Home Appliances Corporation - LaFolletteRanges, household-type cooking, manufacturing251
- Lafollette Medical CenterGeneral hospital219FTE
- Dixie Roofing, Inc. - LaFolletteRoofing, built-up tar and gravel, installation145
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities128
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket120
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,553 people in all. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Campbell County, 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 Campbell County and the Knoxville, TN metro.
Newcomb home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newcomb$158,038
- 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.
Zip codes with a Newcomb address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newcomb — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.