Norris, Tennessee.
Typical home $497,297 (+4.5% in a year). Knoxville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,620 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,238 +4%
- $476,059$497,297 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $149,849 +43%
- $347,448$497,297 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.
- Norris$2,610
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Norris, TN rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norris, Anderson County, Tennessee
Norris is a city of 1,599 people in Anderson County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Anderson County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norris is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home is valued well above what many older homeowners might expect for East Tennessee. Incomes in the county run somewhat modest, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold but brief, with only a little snow and plenty of rain through the year; summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services and manufacturing. Across Anderson County, some of the largest workplaces are Anderson County Schools, Oak Ridge Schools and Methodist Medical Center. The typical commute is moderate, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Museum of Appalachia is in or beside town, and Norris Dam State Park, Big Ridge State Park and Coal Creek are all a short drive away for walking and time near the water. A longer drive brings Norris Lake, a large reservoir, and Zoo Knoxville.
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- 763households
- 52%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anderson County had 46,595 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 3 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norris weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anderson County
- Uranium Processng Facility (UPF) (EPC Work)Industrial building construction1,600
- Anderson County SchoolsSchool district1,193FTE
- Eagle Bend MaufacturingJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing942
- Oak Ridge SchoolsSchool district782FTE
- RSI EnTechEnvironmental remediation services709
- Methodist Medical CenterGeneral hospital696FTE
- AtkinsRealis US NuclearHazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste688
- SL AmericaMotor vehicle electric equipment608
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 86 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,459 people in all across the county; Norris has one 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Norris’ 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 Anderson County and the Knoxville, TN metro.
Norris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norris$497,297
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Norris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.