Tennessee · NAICS 531 · Annual, 2025
Real Estate in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 531 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Real Estate (NAICS 531) employed about 32,700 people in Tennessee across roughly 6,509 establishments, with average annual pay of $76,920.
Employment in Real Estate in Tennessee grew 15.8% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 32,700. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 32,700Employment, 2025
- 6,509Establishments
- $76,920Avg. annual pay
- 1.0%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 0.85Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 23,900; 2005 24,600; 2006 24,800; 2007 24,800; 2008 24,500; 2009 22,900; 2010 22,800; 2011 22,400; 2012 22,800; 2013 23,800; 2014 24,600; 2015 25,400; 2016 26,200; 2017 27,200; 2018 28,300; 2019 28,800; 2020 28,300; 2021 30,000; 2022 31,400; 2023 32,200; 2024 32,600; 2025 32,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32,726 | 6,509 | $76,921 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 32,603 | 6,936 | $71,840 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 32,209 | 6,651 | $68,780 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 31,436 | 6,117 | $67,996 | 4.9% | pub. |
| 2021 | 29,971 | 5,616 | $62,298 | 6.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 28,259 | 5,158 | $58,876 | 1.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 28,805 | 4,847 | $54,907 | 1.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 28,272 | 4,690 | $52,228 | 3.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 27,204 | 4,471 | $50,397 | 3.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 26,188 | 4,279 | $50,240 | 3.0% | est. · 0.99 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Real Estate in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
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