Rockvale, Tennessee.
Typical home $485,553 (-0.4% in a year). Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,392 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,923 -0%
- $487,476$485,553 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,166 +22%
- $399,387$485,553 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.
- Rockvale$2,549
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Rockvale, TN fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rockvale, Rutherford County, Tennessee
Rockvale, in Rutherford County, had 1,279 people in the 2020 census. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Rutherford County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rutherford County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockvale is a small community in Rutherford County, Tennessee, where nearly every home is lived in by its owners. Homes here cost more than most across the country, and household incomes across the county are well above what is typical nationally. Winters are cold but short of severe, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Rutherford County, some of the largest workplaces are Nissan, Rutherford County Schools and Middle Tennessee State University. Commutes here run longer than most, and unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year earlier.
Things to do. Stones River National Battlefield, an archaeological site, and the Stones River Greenway Arboretum, a botanical garden, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere and Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art are both a longer drive away.
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- 46 mintypical commute
What people in Rutherford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rutherford County had 148,438 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Christiana 5W weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rutherford County
- NissanAutomobile manufacturing6,430
- Rutherford County SchoolsSchool district5,388FTE
- Middle Tennessee State UniversityUniversity or college2,497
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,128
- City of MurfreesboroGeneral services departments, government1,970
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,733
- Taylor Farms Tennessee/ SouthVegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing1,691
- Saint Thomas Rutherford HospitalGeneral hospital1,622FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 303 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 53,085 people in all across the county; Rockvale has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockvale’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 Rutherford County and the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro.
Rockvale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockvale$485,553
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Rockvale 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.
- Rockvale32.01%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rockvale30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rockvale7
Zip codes with a Rockvale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockvale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.