Washburn, Tennessee.
Typical home $257,938 (+7.1% in a year). Morristown, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$504 (+59%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $17,201 +7%
- $240,738$257,938 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.
- Washburn$1,354
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Washburn, TN rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Washburn, Grainger County, Tennessee
The Census does not count Washburn on its own, so the figures here are Grainger County's. Half the county's households earn more than $50,538 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Grainger County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grainger 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Washburn is a town in Grainger County in East Tennessee, set among the Appalachian hills. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are older on average than across most of the country, with household incomes lower than the national norm. Winters are cold with light snow, summers are hot, and rain falls heavily through the year.
Work. Many people in Grainger County work in schools, hospitals and social care, in factories, in shops, or in the building trades. Jobs fell slightly over the past year, and unemployment has edged up. Most people drive to work, with longer commutes than the typical one across the country, and far fewer work from home.
Things to do. For time on the water, Cherokee Lake, a reservoir a longer drive away, and the Nolichucky River, also a longer drive away, are among the better known choices. For history and culture, the Museum of Appalachia, a museum a longer drive away, and Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, a protected area a longer drive away, are worth the trip.
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- 9,660households
- 47.4median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Grainger County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grainger County had 4,198 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 8 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tazewell weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grainger County
- Grainger County SchoolsSchool district455FTE
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing314
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing303
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket170
- Life Care Centers of AmericaSkilled nursing facilities109
- FILMtechFlexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing80
- Red Diamond EnterprisesVegetable and melon farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed production53
- Bean StationMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,071 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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 Grainger 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 Grainger County and the Morristown, TN metro.
Washburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washburn$257,938
- 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 Washburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washburn — 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.