Williston, Tennessee.
Typical home $327,495 (+3.3% in a year). Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$930 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,447 +3%
- $317,048$327,495 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,704 +27%
- $257,791$327,495 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.
- Williston$1,719
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Williston, TN rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williston, Fayette County, Tennessee
Williston is a city of 349 people in Fayette County. Half its households earn more than $76,875 a year and half less, against $88,456 across Fayette County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williston is a very small Tennessee town in Fayette County, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild for much of the country, with only a little snow. Summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Fayette County, some of the largest workplaces are Fayette County Public Schools, Walmart and Power and Telephone Supply Company. Commutes are long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Wolf River is the best known of the outdoor places nearby, and a longer drive away. Shelby Farms, also a longer drive, is a park, and Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area. Davis' Mills Battle Site, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away too.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 8,381 jobs in 2025, 3.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moscow weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Power and Telephone Supply CompanyMeters, electrical, merchant wholesalers590
- Fayette County Public SchoolsSchool district484FTE
- MCPToilet preparations manufacturing290
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters271
- Helen of Troy NevadaSewing machines, household-type, merchant wholesalers197
- Heavy MachinesAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services183
- Pyramex SafetyGeneral merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers170
- Shelby Group International, Inc. (DBA MCR Piperton)Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing130
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,237 people in all across the county; Williston has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williston’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Fayette County and the Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
Williston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williston$327,495
- 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.
- Williston8
Zip codes with a Williston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.