Taft, Tennessee.
Typical home $299,393 (+3.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$798 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,206 +4%
- $288,187$299,393 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,220 +14%
- $262,174$299,393 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.
- Taft$1,571
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Taft, TN rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Taft, Lincoln County, Tennessee
Taft, in Lincoln County, had 256 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Taft is a very small community in Lincoln County, Tennessee, home to far fewer people than a typical town. Homes here cost more than the county's typical household income might suggest, and the county's incomes sit near the middle of the range for Tennessee. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow are plentiful across the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Lincoln County, some of the largest workplaces are Frito Lay, Lincoln County Schools and Lincoln Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has stayed close to where it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Tims Ford State Park is the nearest of the places worth a trip, a protected area for time outdoors, though like the rest it is a longer drive away. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is a museum, and the Huntsville Botanical Garden offers a quieter afternoon among planted grounds. Big Spring Park is a city park in the same area, handy for a walk after a museum visit.
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What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 9,796 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ardmore weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Frito LAYOther snack food manufacturing887
- Lincoln County SchoolsSchool district575FTE
- First Brands GroupMotor vehicle trimmings manufacturing334
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters305
- Lincoln Medical CenterGeneral hospital293FTE
- Copperweld Bimetallics LLC -Cotton MillCopper products made by rolling, drawing, or extruding purchased copper205
- HIROTEC Manufacturing AmericaManufacture of exhaust systems185
- Fayetteville SchoolsSchool district183FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,991 people in all across the county; Taft has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Taft’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Lincoln County.
Taft home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Taft$299,393
- 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.
- Taft10
Zip codes with a Taft address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Taft — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.