Vanleer, Tennessee.
Typical home $326,181 (+5.4% in a year). Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$975 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,747 +5%
- $309,433$326,181 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,316 +32%
- $247,865$326,181 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.
- Vanleer$1,712
- 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 Vanleer, TN rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vanleer, Dickson County, Tennessee
Vanleer is a town of 374 people in Dickson County. Half its households earn more than $67,375 a year and half less, against $75,003 across Dickson County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dickson County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dickson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vanleer is a very small town in Dickson County, Tennessee, where everyone is likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are well above what the incomes alone might suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with only a dusting of snow in a typical year, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Dickson County, the largest workplaces include Dickson County Schools, Horizon Medical Center and Walmart. Commutes are long, and very few people work from home, so most jobs mean driving out of town. Unemployment across the county is low and has barely changed over the past year.
Things to do. White Oak Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther out, a longer drive brings you to Dunbar Cave State Park, a protected area, and to Fort Donelson National Battlefield, an archaeological site tied to the nineteenth century. Montgomery Bell State Park, another protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Dickson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dickson County had 18,815 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 2 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dickson weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dickson County
- Dickson County SchoolsSchool district1,317FTE
- Horizon Medical CenterGeneral hospital519FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters365
- TennscoShelving manufacturing352
- NHC DicksonSkilled nursing facilities285
- Nemak TENFoundries, aluminum261
- Mohawk IndustriesWall tile, ceramic, manufacturing242
- Tennsco Plant 5Shelving manufacturing229
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,070 people in all across the county; Vanleer 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vanleer’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 Dickson County and the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro.
Vanleer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vanleer$326,181
- 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.
- Vanleer9
Zip codes with a Vanleer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vanleer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Vanleer
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37051 | Cumberland Furnace | 3,765 | — | $356,283 |
| 37181 | Vanleer | 1,886 | — | $314,895 |