Trimble, Tennessee.
Typical home $109,743 (-9.7% in a year). Union City, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$80 (+16%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $11,794 -10%
- $121,537$109,743 since Sep 2025
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.
- Trimble$576
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Trimble, TN fell 9.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trimble, Obion County, Tennessee
Trimble is a town of 547 people in Obion County. Unemployment in Obion County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Obion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trimble is a very small town in Obion County, in the flat farm country of northwest Tennessee. Homes here are inexpensive, and the typical home value sits well below what many homeowners elsewhere would expect. Winters are cold but not severe, with only a little snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home, so most people travel to a job, and the typical commute is a long one. Across Obion County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Farms, Obion County Schools and Walmart, and the county has lost some jobs over the past year while unemployment has held steady.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Reelfoot Lake, a lake a longer drive away, and Reelfoot Lake State Park, a protected area also a longer drive off, sits along its shore. Discovery Park of America is a museum, likewise a longer drive away. For quieter time outdoors, the Obion River is another longer drive from town.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Obion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Obion County had 11,923 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 6 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Union City weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Obion County
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,722
- Obion County SchoolsSchool district532FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters343
- Williams Sausage CompanyMeat processed from carcasses303
- Baptist MEM Hospital Union CityGeneral hospital279FTE
- Kohler CoGlass products made from purchased glass278
- Union City SchoolsSchool district226FTE
- Turner HealthcareNursing homes213
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,351 people in all across the county; Trimble 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trimble’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Obion County and the Union City, TN metro.
Trimble home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trimble$109,743
- 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.
Zip codes with a Trimble address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trimble — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.