Pulaski, Tennessee.
Typical home $246,568 (+1.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$741 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,594 +1%
- $243,974$246,568 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,477 +32%
- $187,091$246,568 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.
- Pulaski$1,294
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Pulaski, TN rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee
Pulaski is a city of 8,397 people in Giles County. Half its households earn more than $48,538 a year and half less, against $62,307 across Giles County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 47% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 53% are rented. Unemployment in Giles County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pulaski is the seat of Giles County, Tennessee, a small city where fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, and where incomes run well below the county's. A smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold but not severe, with little snow, and January is the coldest month. Summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Manufacturing is the largest line of work among residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops. Among the biggest workplaces in Pulaski are Frito Lay, Giles County Schools and the Southern Tennessee Regional Medical Center. Unemployment in Giles County is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before. Few residents work from home, and the typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. For time outdoors, David Crockett State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Buffalo River is a river a longer drive away. Fort Hampton, a fort a longer drive away, is one stop for those interested in local history. Stillhouse Hollow Falls State Natural Area, a waterfall also a longer drive away, is another.
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- 3,483households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Giles County had 9,614 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 2 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pulaski Wwtp weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pulaski
- Frito LAYOther snack food manufacturing636
- Giles County SchoolsSchool district592FTE
- Magnetti Marelli of TennesseeVehicular lighting fixtures manufacturing527
- Adient, Pulaski PlantSeat cushions, foam plastics, manufacturing330
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters274
- SO Tenn REG MED CTR of PulaskiGeneral hospital209FTE
- The University of Tennessee SouthernUniversity or college207
- NHC Healthcare PulaskiSkilled nursing facilities105
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,362 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Pulaski’s 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 Giles County.
Pulaski home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pulaski$246,568
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Pulaski listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 days — 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.
- Pulaski30.33%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pulaski131
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pulaski28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pulaski$218,198
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Pulaski address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pulaski — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.