Rutherford, Tennessee.
Typical home $146,539 (+0.4% in a year). Jackson, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$384 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $530 +0%
- $146,010$146,539 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,311 +8%
- $136,228$146,539 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.
- Rutherford$769
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 48 years.
Typical home values in Rutherford, TN rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rutherford, Gibson County, Tennessee
Rutherford is a town of 1,163 people in Gibson County. Half its households earn more than $50,667 a year and half less, against $62,755 across Gibson County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Gibson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 9.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rutherford is a small West Tennessee town where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with only a little snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. People in town work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government and shops close behind. Across Gibson County, some of the largest workplaces are Tyson Farms, the Gibson County school district and Reinhausen Manufacturing. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Obion River and Big Cypress Tree State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Reelfoot Lake, one of the best known lakes in the region. Discovery Park of America, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 496households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gibson County had 16,381 jobs in 2025, 9.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Martin U Of T Branch East weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gibson County
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,784
- Gibson Co Sp Dist SchoolsSchool district508FTE
- Milan SchoolsSchool district374FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters272
- Reinhausen ManufacturingVoltage regulating transformers, electric power, manufacturing265
- Max TransMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload245
- FedExCourier and express delivery services243
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,104 people in all across the county; Rutherford 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rutherford’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 Gibson County and the Jackson, TN metro.
Rutherford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rutherford$146,539
- 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.
- Rutherford15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Rutherford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rutherford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.