Trade, Tennessee.
Typical home $265,867 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$799 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,357 +4%
- $256,509$265,867 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,484 +29%
- $205,382$265,867 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.
- Trade$1,395
- 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 Trade, TN rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trade, Johnson County, Tennessee
The Census does not count Trade on its own, so the figures here are Johnson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,129 a year and half less; 21% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Johnson County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trade is a small town in Johnson County, in the mountainous northeast corner of Tennessee. Across the county, the population is older than most of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Home values sit below the typical national level, and household incomes are lower than the national norm, with more residents living below the poverty line than across most of the country.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment are the main places residents work. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the county has seen fewer jobs than the year before. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Elk Knob State Park is a protected area a short drive away, good for quiet days outdoors. Watauga Lake, a reservoir, and Cascade Falls, a waterfall, are each a longer drive off. Bristol Motor Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 7,298households
- 46.7median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Johnson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 4,187 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 12 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountain City weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- Danny Herman TruckingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload740
- Johnson County SchoolsSchool district485FTE
- Universal Health ServicesRes mental health substance abuse facilit154
- New River HardwoodsSawmills82
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities82
- Food LionGrocery stores72
- Town of Mountain CityExecutive and legislative office combinations57
- Johnson County Community HospitalCritical access hospital50FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,212 people in all. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Johnson County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Johnson County.
Trade home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trade$265,867
- 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.
- Trade5
Zip codes with a Trade address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trade — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.