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Caregiver Jobs in Greene County, TN

Greene County has 73,831 residents, 22.1% of them 65 or older, and about seven in ten live outside its towns. Private postings from families across the county appear above as they are published, each with its own town and distance.

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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Greene County

Greene County covers 624 square miles of Northeast Tennessee, according to the county government, and borders Hawkins County to the north, Hamblen and Cocke to the west, Washington and Unicoi to the east and Madison County, North Carolina, to the south. About 60 square miles in the south of the county are part of the Cherokee National Forest. Greeneville is the county seat. The Census Bureau estimated 73,831 residents in July 2025; 51,258 of them lived outside the four incorporated places of Greeneville, Tusculum, Mosheim and Baileyton. For a caregiver, that means many clients live on rural roads with a ZIP code rather than a town name, and most of the hiring institutions are in Greeneville.

Searching here works best with a radius rather than a single town. Set one wide enough to reach the town where you would accept work, put both "caregiver" and "sitter" in the profile text, and state plainly whether your own car is available for a client's appointments. Greene borders Hamblen and Hawkins counties, so towns there such as Morristown and Bulls Gap may fall inside your radius; Newport in Cocke County and Rogersville are the other neighboring town pages.

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Families looking for private caregivers in Greene County

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Light housekeeping & companion care caregiver needed in Mohawk, TN

Mohawk, TN · about 12 straight-line mi from Greene CountyFlexible
$19.00/hr offeredPosted Oct 25, 2026
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Cities and towns in Greene County

Caregiver jobs by city and town

Each page below has its own local research and shows live postings near that place. Towns without a page yet are covered by this hub.

Area by area

The communities of Greene County

Greeneville and Mohawk have their own pages. The other incorporated places and the larger rural ZIP areas below are covered here; ZIP figures are ACS 2020–2024 estimates for each ZIP Code Tabulation Area.
  • GreenevilleThe county seat and largest town, 16,141 residents in July 2025, with the hospital, three of the four nursing homes, the Walters State and TCAT campuses and the county's designated senior center.
  • MohawkAn unincorporated community with ZIP code 37810; the ZIP area has about 1,800 residents, roughly a quarter of them 65 or older.
  • TusculumAn incorporated city of 3,421 residents in the July 2025 estimate; one of the two places, with Greeneville, that NET Trans CONNECT on-demand rides serve in the county.
  • MosheimAn incorporated town of 2,547; its 37818 ZIP area holds about 5,800 people, 19.2% of them 65 or older.
  • BaileytonThe smallest incorporated town in the county, 464 residents in July 2025.
  • Chuckey (37641)The largest ZIP area outside Greeneville's, about 9,700 residents and 20.0% aged 65 or older, and the site of one of the county's four Medicare-listed nursing homes.
  • Afton (37616)A ZIP area of about 5,800 residents, 21.8% of them 65 or older.
  • Midway (37809)A smaller ZIP area of about 2,200 residents, with a younger profile: 13.8% are 65 or older, with a wide margin.
Types of caregiver jobs

Types of caregiver jobs in Greene County

Across the county, private work for an older adult can be daytime sitting and meals, personal care in the morning or evening, overnight cover, a weekly few hours of respite for a spouse, or help after a hospital stay in Greeneville. Agency and facility jobs add a second route: home health agencies, four nursing homes and the hospital all employ aides. You can apply for private, non-medical work without a certificate.

  • Senior caregiving: day-to-day help so an older adult can stay at home.
  • Personal care: bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers.
  • Companion care: company, errands, appointments, light help.
  • Dementia care: routine-based support for memory loss.
  • Respite care: cover so a family caregiver can rest or work.
  • Live-in: room and board as part of the arrangement.
  • Overnight: supervision through the night.
  • Part-time and full-time: set by day and time block on your profile.
Pay

Caregiver pay in Greene County: how much caregivers make

Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the East Tennessee nonmetropolitan area (includes Greene County); private rates on CaregiverConnect are agreed between each caregiver and family and are not tracked by any agency.

MeasureHourlySource and coverage
Home health and personal care aides, East Tennessee nonmetropolitan area (includes Greene County)$16.28 median ($16.25 mean)BLS OEWS, May 2025; 1,460 jobs; concentration 0.37× national
TennCare CHOICES, 2026 monthly income limit for applicants$2,982TennCare CHOICES page; countable assets up to $2,000
Federal (Tennessee has no state minimum) minimum wage$7.25effective July 24, 2009
Nursing assistants, East Tennessee nonmetropolitan area (includes Greene County)$17.54 medianBLS OEWS, May 2025 (certified roles, for comparison)

Who is the employer. A family that hires you directly is your employer. Tennessee has no state minimum wage law, so the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour is the legal floor, and federal overtime rules apply to directly employed caregivers unless the work is exempt companionship under the FLSA. Sources: US Department of Labor, state minimum wage laws; US Department of Labor, direct care workers.

Greene County is not part of any metro area in the BLS wage survey. It is one of ten counties, with Cocke, Sevier, McMinn and others, in the East Tennessee nonmetropolitan area, where 1,460 home health and personal care aides were paid a $16.28 median in May 2025 and nursing assistants $17.54. For comparison, the Tennessee aide median was $15.45 and the Kingsport–Bristol metro, which includes Hawkins County, $14.31. The CHOICES income limit in the table matters because it decides which older residents can get home care paid by TennCare rather than by the family.

How the public numbers relate to private rates, and what affects them, is covered in the caregiver pay guide.

Rules

Caregiver requirements in Tennessee, applied to Greene County

No Tennessee minimum wage exists, so the U.S. Department of Labor applies the federal $7.25 to covered work in Greene County. Household caregivers fall under the federal domestic service rules, with exemptions for companionship and for live-in workers that agencies, as third-party employers, cannot use under the 2013 rule; the Department proposed revising this in July 2025. For a nursing assistant certificate you complete an approved training program, pass the state competency exam within 24 months and renew every two years; the registry and testing vendor named by the Health Facilities Commission is Credentia from June 1, 2026. Reports to Adult Protective Services go to 1-888-277-8366, staffed around the clock, or to the One DHS online portal.

Local resources

Training and career resources near Greene County

County-wide training and support, each checked on the organization's own site on October 25, 2026. The town pages add local detail.

  • FTAAAD, the area agency on aging and disabilityPart of the First Tennessee Development District, 3211 N. Roan Street, Johnson City; serves Greene, Hawkins and six other counties. Information and Assistance 866-836-6678, general 423-928-0224. For residents who are not on TennCare it is the door to CHOICES; it also manages OPTIONS for Community Living, which pays for homemaker help, personal care and home-delivered meals on a sliding fee with no income test.
  • Greene County Health DepartmentWeekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 423-798-1749. Immunizations, acute primary care, nutrition education, vital records and CHANT home visiting and case management.
  • Walters State Community College, Niswonger Campus221 N. College St., Greeneville, 423-798-7940. Its credit programs include nursing and three allied health degrees (respiratory care and the occupational and physical therapy assistant tracks); the college's workforce division runs Certified Nurse Assistant and Medication Aide courses across its region.
  • TCAT Morristown, Greene County Extension4800 East Andrew Johnson Highway, Greeneville. The Practical Nursing diploma (1,296 hours, tuition and fees $4,923) takes a September class in Greeneville.
  • Meals on Wheels Northeast TennesseeThe First Tennessee Human Resource Agency delivers weekday meals in Greene County to residents aged 60-plus and to younger adults with a disability, once the area agency has assessed them (423-928-3258). Congregate meals are served at the Roby Fitzgerald Adult Center, 203 North College Street, Greeneville.
  • NET TransShared door-to-door vans open to the general public across rural Greene County, running between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays, with a limited Saturday schedule. Call (423) 461-8233 or use the NET Trans app.
The area

Greene County in numbers

ACS 2020–2024 figures for the county: median age 44.7, 22.1% aged 65 or older against 17.1% statewide, median household income $56,194, 15.4% of residents below the poverty line, a 26-minute average commute and 77.1% of homes owner-occupied. Among residents 65 and older, 41.3% report a disability. On BLS figures, the county's unemployment rate sat above Tennessee's in each of the eleven published months from September 2025 through August 2026, in a 3.9%–5.1% band against 3.2%–3.8% for the state (not seasonally adjusted).

Most employers of aides are in Greeneville. Ballad Health's Greeneville Community Hospital, formed from Laughlin Memorial and Takoma Regional, has 140 beds and a 24-hour emergency department. Medicare lists four nursing homes in the county with 480 certified beds between them: Life Care Center of Greeneville (161), Signature HealthCare of Greeneville (154), Laughlin Health Care Center (90) and a 75-bed home in Chuckey. Medicare's home health list shows Greeneville offices for Ballad Health Homecare, Adoration Home Health and one other agency. The county seat has its own page, caregiver jobs in Greeneville, and so does Mohawk.

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How it works

How to find private caregiver jobs in Greene County (no agency)

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  4. Browse, apply or respond

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Guides

Useful reading before you apply

Sources (checked 2026-10-25):
  1. Greene County government, history, location and size
  2. Greene County government, Health Department
  3. U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county and subcounty population estimates
  4. U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 data profiles DP02–DP05, Greene County, Tennessee
  5. U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 DP05, ZCTAs 37810, 37818, 37616, 37641 and 37809
  6. U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Tennessee place codes
  7. BLS, May 2025 OEWS metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area definitions
  8. BLS OEWS May 2025, East Tennessee nonmetropolitan area, Kingsport–Bristol and Tennessee, via the BLS public API
  9. BLS LAUS, Greene County and Tennessee unemployment rates, not seasonally adjusted
  10. U.S. Department of Labor, state minimum wage laws (Tennessee)
  11. U.S. Department of Labor, domestic service and home care under the FLSA
  12. TennCare, CHOICES eligibility, income limit and Consumer Direction
  13. Tennessee Health Facilities Commission, nurse aide information and registry
  14. Tennessee DHS, Adult Protective Services
  15. First Tennessee Area Agency on Aging and Disability, OPTIONS, CHOICES and senior centers
  16. First Tennessee Development District, contact
  17. First Tennessee Human Resource Agency, Meals on Wheels and meal sites
  18. NET Trans, service area, hours and CONNECT
  19. Walters State Community College, Niswonger Campus and Allied Health Training
  20. TCAT Morristown, Practical Nursing and campus locations
  21. Ballad Health, Greeneville Community Hospital
  22. CMS Provider Data, nursing homes (Greene County, TN) and home health agencies (Greeneville, TN)
Questions

Caregiver jobs in Greene County: frequently asked questions

Which BLS wage area covers Greene County, Tennessee?

The East Tennessee nonmetropolitan area, a group of ten rural counties that includes Greene and Cocke. Its May 2025 home health and personal care aide median was $16.28 an hour across 1,460 jobs.

Who qualifies for TennCare CHOICES home care in Greene County?

People 65 or older, or 21 or older with a physical disability, who need help with daily activities at the level CHOICES requires and who meet the financial rules: in 2026, income up to $2,982 a month and countable assets up to $2,000, not counting the home.

Where do older adults in Greene County start if they need help at home?

With the regional aging agency, FTAAAD, on 866-836-6678. It checks CHOICES eligibility for people not yet on TennCare and runs OPTIONS, which has no income test. People already on TennCare call the health plan printed on their card.

How many nursing homes are in Greene County?

Medicare lists four, with 480 certified beds in total: three in Greeneville and one in Chuckey. Nursing homes, home health agencies and Greeneville Community Hospital are the main employers of aides in the county.

Does most of Greene County live in Greeneville?

No. Of the 73,831 residents estimated for July 2025, 16,141 lived in the Town of Greeneville and 51,258 lived outside all four incorporated places, which is why a car matters for private caregivers here.

Does public transit reach clients in rural Greene County?

NET Trans runs door-to-door public vans in the rural parts of the county on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Book on (423) 461-8233. Inside Greeneville and Tusculum it also offers same-day CONNECT rides booked through its app.

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