Sunbright, Tennessee.
Typical home $201,657 (+5.6% in a year). Knoxville, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$595 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,778 +6%
- $190,879$201,657 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,899 +23%
- $163,758$201,657 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.
- Sunbright$1,058
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Sunbright, TN rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunbright, Morgan County, Tennessee
Sunbright is a city of 519 people in Morgan County. Half its households earn more than $59,375 a year and half less, against $65,954 across Morgan County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Morgan County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 12.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morgan County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunbright is a very small town in Morgan County, Tennessee, with a population smaller than many neighborhoods elsewhere. Household incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most would expect to find. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights well below freezing, though snow is light. Summers are warm, and rain falls generously through the year.
Work. Residents of Sunbright work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Morgan County, the largest workplaces include Morgan County Schools, Cobb-vantress and Heraeus Precious Metals North America. The county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and unemployment is a little higher than it was then. Working from home is uncommon.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor draws are a longer drive away. Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is a large protected area with rivers and wooded gorges, and Ozone Falls is a waterfall. Frozen Head State Park is a state park in the mountains, also a longer drive away. Together they make for day trips more than quick evening outings.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Morgan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morgan County had 3,158 jobs in 2025, 12.7% fewer 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 86° and lows near 63°. About 5 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lancing Northwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morgan County
- Morgan County SchoolsSchool district464FTE
- Cobb-vantressChicken egg production207
- Morgan County FinanceExecutive offices, federal, state, and local190
- Heraeus Precious Metals North AmericaPrecious metals recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals125
- Life Care of MorganNursing homes96
- Sunbright VegetationTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line80
- Tennessee College of Applied Technology-HarrimanTwo-year college28
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,272 people in all across the county; Sunbright has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sunbright’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 Morgan County and the Knoxville, TN metro.
Sunbright home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunbright$201,657
- 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.
- Sunbright12
Zip codes with a Sunbright address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunbright — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.