Walden, Tennessee.
Typical home $700,278 (+2.7% in a year). Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,211 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,353 +3%
- $681,925$700,278 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $193,837 +38%
- $506,441$700,278 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.
- Walden$3,676
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Walden, TN rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walden, Hamilton County, Tennessee
Walden is a town of 1,981 people in Hamilton County. Half its households earn more than $124,493 a year and half less, against $76,183 across Hamilton County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walden is a small town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where the typical home is valued well above what is usual in much of the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, very few residents live below the poverty line, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. The population skews a little older than the national picture, which suits a quiet, settled place.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Hamilton County, some of the largest workplaces are Hamilton County Schools, Erlanger Medical Center and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Unemployment in the county is low and about where it stood a year ago, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Tennessee Aquarium and the Hunter Museum of American Art are among the better-known places to spend an afternoon, and Chickamauga Lake offers time by the water. A longer drive away, Ruby Falls is a waterfall reached through a cave. Winters are cool with only a little snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Report a mistake
- 719households
- 65%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 219,580 jobs in 2025, 0.7% 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 88° and lows near 66°. About 4 inches of snow and 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Soddy Daisy-mowbray Mountain weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hamilton County
- Hamilton County SchoolsSchool district6,512FTE
- USXpressContainer trucking services, long-distance6,267
- Erlanger Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,590FTE
- BlueCross BlueShield of TennesseeHealth insurance carriers, direct5,310
- Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga OperationsChassis, automobile, manufacturing3,981
- McKee FoodsCroutons and bread crumbs made in commercial bakeries3,175
- City of ChattanoogaExecutive offices, federal, state, and local2,618
- Memorial Health Care SystemGeneral hospital2,420FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 445 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82,961 people in all across the county; Walden 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walden’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Hamilton County and the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro.
Walden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walden$700,278
- 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.
- Walden7
Zip codes with a Walden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.