Knoxville, TN Home Business: Zoning & Home Occupation Permits (2026)

Appendix B defines a home occupation as an accessory use conducted within a resident's own dwelling unit, not as a separate principal land use with its own zoning-district list. That means the applicable zone is whatever residential district the dwelling already sits in. Recode Knoxville doesn't publish a table of districts where home occupations are or aren't allowed. The tradeoff is that the use must stay clearly incidental and subordinate to the dwelling's residential purpose; if a business outgrows that relationship, it stops qualifying as a home occupation and needs to relocate to a district that allows the underlying commercial use as a principal use.