Plainview, Tennessee.
Typical home $295,004 (+3.7% in a year). Knoxville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$943 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,393 +4%
- $284,611$295,004 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,749 +42%
- $207,255$295,004 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.
- Plainview$1,548
- 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 Plainview, TN rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainview, Union County, Tennessee
Plainview is a city of 2,060 people in Union County. Half its households earn more than $63,965 a year and half less, against $62,727 across Union County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Union County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 8.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainview is a small Tennessee city in Union County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold but not severe, with only light snow, and summers turn warm, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Union County, the largest workplaces include Union County Schools, the manufactured home maker Clayton, and the K VA T Food Stores supermarket. The commute to work is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Norris Lake, a reservoir, and Big Ridge State Park, a protected natural area, are both a short drive away. For a day out, Zoo Knoxville and the Museum of Appalachia are a longer drive away.
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- 959households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 2,688 jobs in 2025, 8.3% fewer 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, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union County
- Union County SchoolsSchool district623FTE
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing244
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket159
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities55
- DeRoyal Foam/ConvertingSurgical supplies manufacturing29
- MaynardvilleMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 507 people in all across the county; Plainview has none 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of PlainviewRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of PlainviewRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plainview’s census tracts, 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 Union County and the Knoxville, TN metro.
Plainview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainview$295,004
- 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.
- Plainview11
Zip codes with a Plainview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.