White Pine, Tennessee.
Typical home $259,565 (+2.2% in a year). Morristown, TN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$856 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,654 +2%
- $253,910$259,565 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,298 +50%
- $173,266$259,565 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.
- White Pine$1,362
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in White Pine, TN rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in White Pine, Jefferson County, Tennessee
White Pine is a town of 2,471 people in Jefferson County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. White Pine is a small Tennessee town in Jefferson County, with a population that skews a little older than the typical American community. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole. Winters are cold but not severe, with a modest amount of snow, and summers turn warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow over the course of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, factories, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are Jefferson County Schools, Carson-Newman University and Bush Brothers. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The Nolichucky River and the Pigeon River are both a short drive away, and are good choices for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Cherokee Lake, a reservoir, and to Dollywood, an amusement park. Cherokee National Forest, a large protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,059households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 13,797 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morristown Radio Wcrk weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district1,038FTE
- Carson-Newman UniversityUniversity or college471
- Bush BrothersVegetable canning390
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing338
- JLGAerial work platforms manufacturing307
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters306
- Jefferson Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital243FTE
- Jefferson County nursing homeNursing homes233
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,478 people in all across the county; White Pine has two 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
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in White Pine’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 Jefferson County and the Morristown, TN metro.
White Pine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- White Pine$259,565
- 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.
- White Pine18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- White Pine4
Zip codes with a White Pine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls White Pine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.