Alcoa Highway (US-129)

Traffic counts along Alcoa Highway (US-129)

Annual average daily traffic (AADT) at TDOT's 5 active count stations on the corridor, 2025 counts. The busiest station reads 75,953 vehicles a day (Alcoa Highway (SR-115 / US-129), mile 6.41).

Source: TDOT Traffic Points (Tennessee Department of Transportation open data, E-TRIMS), pulled 2026-09-08. Log mile is TDOT's distance along the route from its county origin; each station links to TDOT's count history for that spot. Trucks are FHWA classes 4–13 as a share of AADT.

Zoning along Alcoa Highway (US-129)

27 zoning districts touch the corridor within 200 ft of the road — about the first parcel's depth — under City of Knoxville and Knox County zoning; 8 of them are commercial or office districts. "Areas" is how many separately zoned areas of that district front the road, not acreage.

Source: Knoxville - Knox County Zoning (Knoxville-Knox County Planning open data), Planning's layer as edited 2026-09-03, pulled 2026-09-08 (Public Domain Dedication and License 1.0). District names are the ordinances' own — the City of Knoxville Zoning Code (by article) and the Knox County Zoning Ordinance, Appendix A (by section), each row linked. Zoning changes monthly by Council and Commission action — confirm a parcel on KGIS before you act on it.

What is being built along Alcoa Highway (US-129)

In the 3 years through 2026-02-24, the three permit offices issued 33 permits for new non-residential buildings within 820 ft of the road, $54,128,164 of declared construction cost, 5 non-residential demolitions, and 76 permits for new homes — the rooftops that feed a corridor.

The 12 most recent of 33 new non-residential permits in the window; the rest are in the same public record.

Source: Building permits (Knoxville-Knox County Planning open data), layer as edited 2026-03-18, pulled 2026-09-08 (Public Domain Dedication and License 1.0). Window: 2023-02-24 to 2026-02-24, the layer's latest permit. The layer tracks new construction and demolition from Knox County, the City of Knoxville and the Town of Farragut — not renovations or tenant fit-outs. Declared cost is the cost of work the applicant declared on the permit; it is not a price, and it is not a valuation.

Jobs along Alcoa Highway (US-129)

The Census Bureau counts 11,527 jobs located within 820 ft of the road in 2023, +2,585 (+28.9%) since 2018; 64% of them pay more than $3,333 a month.

• 1,382 pay $1,250 a month or less (12%)
• 2,720 pay $1,251 to $3,333 a month (24%)
• 7,425 pay more than $3,333 a month (64%)

Source: LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES), Workplace Area Characteristics, Tennessee (LODES 2023 vintage 20251202, 2018 vintage 20230321), summed over the 153 2020 Census blocks within 820 ft of the road line (45 of them with jobs in 2023), pulled 2026-09-08. LODES counts jobs by the block the workplace is in, from unemployment-insurance records with noise added to protect employers — an estimate, not a payroll census; federal and some self-employment is not covered. Sector names per the LODES technical document; explore the same data on OnTheMap.

Opportunity Zones along Alcoa Highway (US-129)

2 of the 9 census tracts within 820 ft of the road are designated Qualified Opportunity Zones — the 2018 designations under Internal Revenue Code §1400Z-1, still the ones in force. For the next round, 6 of the corridor's 10 2020-vintage tracts are on Treasury's list of tracts eligible for nomination as 2027 Opportunity Zones; the Governor nominates from that list, and Treasury designates.

Designated (2018 round)

• Census tract 103.01, Blount County · 47009010301
• Census tract 35, Knox County · 47093003500

Eligible for nomination (2027 round)

• Census tract 9.02, Knox County · 47093000902 · eligible, not yet designated
• Census tract 26, Knox County · 47093002600 · eligible, not yet designated
• Census tract 27, Knox County · 47093002700 · eligible, not yet designated
• Census tract 35.02, Knox County · 47093003502 · eligible, not yet designated
• Census tract 69.01, Knox County · 47093006901 · eligible, not yet designated
• Census tract 70, Knox County · 47093007000 · eligible, not yet designated

Source: Opportunity Zones (HUD official content — the tracts designated under IRC §1400Z-1), edited 2026-06-02, checked against the CDFI Fund's designated-QOZ list; Opportunity Zones 2 (HUD official content — 2020 tracts eligible for nomination as 2027 QOZs), edited 2026-08-21, per Treasury's Opportunity Zone data page. Tracts within 820 ft of the road line from the Census Bureau's TIGERweb, pulled 2026-09-08. A designation attaches to the tract, not to a parcel's fitness for any deal; what an investor may do with it is the IRS's to say, and a tax adviser's — not this page's.

Flood zones along Alcoa Highway (US-129)

FEMA maps 53 flood-hazard areas within 820 ft of the road; 27 of them are in a Special Flood Hazard Area — the 1% annual chance floodplain, 4 of those in the regulatory floodway. "Areas" counts FEMA's mapped polygons that touch the band, not acreage — a floodplain runs for miles past any corridor. The 6 Flood Insurance Rate Map panels under the band are effective 2007-05-02 to 2013-08-05.

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL), the effective flood maps as FEMA publishes them, classed by FEMA's own legend, pulled 2026-09-08. Look a parcel up by address on FEMA's Map Service Center. Whether a parcel needs flood insurance is a lender's flood determination on that parcel, not a corridor page's.

Water service along Alcoa Highway (US-129)

3 community water systems' mapped service areas touch the corridor within 820 ft of the road:

• KNOXVILLE UTILITIES BOARD-KUB · TN0000366 · serves about 242,383 people · surface water · TDEC record
• KNOX-CHAPMAN UTILITY DISTRICT · TN0000367 · serves about 39,780 people · surface water · TDEC record
• ALCOA WATER SYSTEM · TN0000007 · serves about 30,944 people · surface water · TDEC record

Source: Tennessee public water system service areas (TDEC, with Vanderbilt's Drinking Water Justice Lab), edited 2026-02-09, pulled 2026-09-08. TDEC's own caveat: "These data should not be used as an endpoint for decision making at local scales for water system infrastructure. These datasets are generated at a coarse scale not intended to be interpreted at local scales." — confirm a parcel's water and sewer with the utility. Electric, natural gas, wastewater and fibre are not shown: no public service-area map of them holds at corridor scale, and the providers publish no boundary feed — confirm with the provider.