Counties / Tennessee / Campbell County

Campbell County, TN

FIPS 47013 · population 39,761 · part of Knoxville, TN

$248k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$248k
▲ 3.6% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
ACS median gross rent
$716
occupied-unit survey; not current asking rent
Census ACS · surveyed
Gross yield
n/a
gross yield cannot be computed without measured market rent
requires both measured price and measured rent
HUD 2-bed standard
$947
the Section 8 payment standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

The annual signals disagree
FHFA five-year cumulative+74.6%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06+3.6%FHFA HPI2025−0.5%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$187k
Surveyed gross rent$716
Rent burden 30%+40.7%
Median year built1984
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
16.4%vacant
20,559estimated housing units
Occupied tenure30.8% renter
owner 69.2%renter 30.8%
Structure mix73.2% single-family
Single-family 73.2%20+ units 1.9%Mobile home 14.7%Other 10.2%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs9,303▼ 0.6% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments721annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$858▲ 1.4% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities23.6% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS−0.6%WEEKLY WAGE+1.4%Trade, transportation, and utilities23.6%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Campbell County is a mixed price-underwriting case for buyers willing to validate transaction comps, while users relying on a single appreciation signal should be cautious. Zillow’s 2026-06 median home value was $248,349, up 3.58%. In contrast, FHFA’s 2025 repeat-transaction HPI declined 0.53%. The series use different methods and labeled periods; they cannot be blended into a growth rate, and the FHFA index is not a home value.

02Housing economics

Carrying-cost analysis is incomplete because median asking market rent is not published, so gross yield cannot be computed. The $947 two-bedroom HUD FMR is a payment standard, not a market-rent estimate and cannot substitute for rent. The effective property-tax rate is 0.37%, with a $691 median annual tax bill; those county figures do not establish the tax burden for a subject property or connect it to the median value. Insurance, maintenance, vacancy, and financing costs are also not published.

03Demand & competition

Realtor.com’s MLS listing-market evidence reports 67 median days on market and 28.59% of listings with price reductions. These are marketing-time and seller-concession measures on active asking listings, not closed-sale prices or proof of buyer demand. The record’s net inward tax-return migration and higher incoming than outgoing AGI warrant local tenant-source checks, not an occupancy conclusion. The 8.55% investor share across 456 purchase mortgages identifies non-owner participation but not the intensity of all buyer competition.

04Risk & next checks

Annual QCEW reports 9,303 covered jobs at county workplaces, down 0.60%; this is neither resident employment nor unemployment. Trade, transportation, and utilities is the largest disclosed private supersector, not the county’s entire economy. Inland flood is the dominant hazard, and modeled annual building-value loss is 0.16%; it is not a property-specific loss prediction. Obtain market-rent and closed-sale comps, parcel tax and flood-insurance quotes, and elevation or drainage review before determining all-in cash flow or value support.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Campbell County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
La Follette city7.3KJacksboro town2.7KCaryville town2.1KJellico city1.9KRocky Top city*1.6KFincastle CDP1.4K
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

6 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    La Follette cityIncorporated place
    7,273
  2. 02
    Jacksboro townIncorporated place
    2,650
  3. 03
    Caryville townIncorporated place
    2,073
  4. 04
    Jellico cityIncorporated place
    1,855
  5. 05
    Rocky Top cityIncorporated place · spans 2 counties
    1,607
  6. 06
    Fincastle CDPCensus-designated place
    1,374

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.156% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.37%

$691 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+201

941 in · 740 out

Arriving vs leaving income+$7,479

$61,482 arriving · $54,003 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors8.6%

39 of 456 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings185▼ 1.9% year over year
Median days on market67▲ 1.9% year over year
Listings price-reduced28.6%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▲ 3.0% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

No rent index is published for this county.Zillow’s county rent series does not cover every county, and estimating one from a neighbouring county would be a guess wearing a number’s clothes. Everything above is measured here; for a rent figure, the Knoxville, TN page covers the wider market.
Same metro

The other counties in Knoxville, TN

A metro is an average of these. Which side of a county line a property sits on can change the tax bill, the hazard profile and the tenant pool.

CountyPopulationPriceRentYieldHazard
Campbell County39,761$248kn/an/ainland flooding
Knox County494,148$384k$1,7685.5%inland flooding
Blount County139,333$399k$1,8685.6%inland flooding
Anderson County79,153$320k$1,6446.2%inland flooding
Loudon County58,580$455k$1,7774.7%inland flooding
Roane County55,208$304k$1,3625.4%inland flooding
Grainger County24,266$286kn/an/ainland flooding
Morgan County21,361$221kn/an/ainland flooding
Union County20,431$299kn/an/ainland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Subject-level rents could differ materially from any future comp set, leaving income coverage untested.
  2. Flood exposure, elevation, and insurance pricing can vary sharply by parcel despite county-level modeled loss.
  3. County averages and active listings may not represent the target neighborhood, property type, or transaction financing.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Is a market-rent-based gross yield available?

No. Median asking market rent is not published, and HUD FMR cannot be used as market rent.

Do Zillow and FHFA provide one common appreciation rate?

No. Zillow reports a median home value, while FHFA reports a repeat-transaction price index from a differently labeled period.

What does the investor share measure?

It measures the share of purchase mortgages made to non-occupants, rather than all forms of buyer competition.