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Valley Forge, Tennessee.

A community in Carter County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Carter County’s.

Living in Valley Forge, Carter County, Tennessee

Valley Forge, in Carter County, had 1,926 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $54,631 a year and half less, against $50,135 across Carter County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Carter County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 5.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carter County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 1,926 in the 2020 census
Household income $54,631 the median, give or take $7,080 · Carter County: $50,135
Unemployment 3.9% Carter County, August 2026; 3.9% a year before
Homes 90% lived in by their owners; 10% rented
  • 978households
  • 10%of adults have a degree
  • 15%below the poverty line
  • 20 mintypical commute
  • 5%work from home

What people in Carter County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care26%
  • Manufacturing13%
  • Shops (retail)13%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment9%
  • Professional and business services9%
  • Building trades8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carter County had 12,639 jobs in 2025, 5.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 46° and 26°; warmest in July, 86° and 64° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 46° 26° F M A M J J 86° 64° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 46° and 26°; warmest in July, 86° and 64° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 46° 26° F M A M J J 86° 64° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 6 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elizabethton weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Carter County

  1. Carter County SchoolsSchool district842FTE
  2. Snap-on ToolsTools, hand, metal blade462
  3. Elizabethton SchoolsSchool district439FTE
  4. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters380
  5. Milligan UniversityUniversity or college324
  6. AYMWaterworks and municipal water system valves manufacturing244
  7. Sycamore Shoals HospitalGeneral hospital216FTE
  8. Life Care Center of ElizabethtonSkilled nursing facilities198

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,141 people in all across the county; Valley Forge has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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

  1. Strong windRelatively high
  2. LightningRelatively high
  3. Inland floodingRelatively high
  4. Ice stormsRelatively moderate
  5. Cold wavesRelatively moderate
  6. TornadoesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Valley Forge’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 Carter County.