Paris, Tennessee.
Typical home $216,087 (+5.4% in a year), asking rent $1,100 . Paris, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$658 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,107 +5%
- $204,980$216,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,340 +36%
- $158,747$216,087 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.
- Paris$1,134
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Paris, TN rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paris, Henry County, Tennessee
Paris is a city of 10,316 people in Henry County. Half its households earn more than $41,012 a year and half less, against $50,613 across Henry County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Henry County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paris is a small city in Henry County, in northwest Tennessee. Its residents are a little older than the typical American, and incomes run below the county's, with a good share of households living below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Paris are Henry County Schools, Walmart and Paris Schools. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Krider Performing Arts Center, a theatre, is in or beside town. Obion Mounds, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and to Paris Landing State Park. Winters are cold with a little snow, summers are warm, and the year is fairly wet.
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- 4,113households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henry County had 11,900 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 5 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paris Southeast weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Paris
- Henry County SchoolsSchool district481FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters357
- Paris SchoolsSchool district246FTE
- McCartney ProduceFresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers202
- EurotranciaturaManfacturing163
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter139
- Servall, LLC - Termite/Pest Control/Gutters/RestorationRoofing contractors93
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services91
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,575 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Paris’ 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 Henry County and the Paris, TN metro.
Paris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paris$216,087
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Paris 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.
- Paris22.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Paris108
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Paris24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Paris$228,731
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Paris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.