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SheetTN-COLLIERVILLE-TN · Collierville, TN 51,212 pop · income 91st pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Collierville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Collierville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Kingsport · lowest
50,436
Kingsport · lowest
50,436 median HH income
36.6% of the leader · rank #1
Greenbriar · near
134,284
Greenbriar · near
134,284 median HH income
97.3% of the leader · rank #2
Colonia · near
134,301
Colonia · near
134,301 median HH income
97.3% of the leader · rank #3
Collierville · this city
134,319
Collierville · this city
134,319 median HH income
97.4% of the leader · rank #4
Trooper · near
134,338
Trooper · near
134,338 median HH income
97.4% of the leader · rank #5
Thousand Oaks · near
134,367
Thousand Oaks · near
134,367 median HH income
97.4% of the leader · rank #6
Aliso Viejo · highest
137,970
Aliso Viejo · highest
137,970 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Collierville on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 51,212.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Collierville - the verdict
Nationally, Collierville sits in the 91st percentile for household income and the 49th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
91st
percentile, household income
82nd
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
49th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Collierville, TN
51,212 people live in Collierville, Tennessee - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Collierville brings in $134,319 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.0%. Home values in Collierville run a median of $458,300, and the median resident age is 39.8 years. About 60.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 181 residential building permits were authorized in Collierville (Slowing), down 9% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Collierville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1418.8 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 61.1°F with 57.0 inches of precipitation per year and 1.4 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Tennessee run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Tennessee at 91.9 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,118 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Tennessee's average monthly utility costs around $218 (state average). Workers in Collierville report an average commute of 20.6 minutes, with 72.9% driving alone and 19.3% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 52.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Collierville's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist to housing and income to climate and hazard context to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Collierville, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Collierville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.6 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Collierville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1418.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 38% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Is Collierville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +717 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 181 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Which cities make useful reference points for Collierville?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Spring Hill (53,585 residents, $106,658 income); Cleveland (48,185 residents, $55,904 income); Smyrna (55,066 residents, $78,409 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Tamiami, FL (51,201 residents); Wake Forest, NC (51,199 residents); Hoffman Estates, IL (51,186 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Collierville?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.4×
Home value
$458,300
Household income
$134,319
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What physical conditions frame life in Collierville?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 61.1°F, with 57.0 inches of precipitation and 1.4 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Tennessee is 52.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
52.5
Annual precipitation
57.0 in
Mean temperature
61.1°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the education layer cover for Collierville?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 60.6% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
2.0%
Bachelor's degree+
60.6%
Matched public schools
10
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A+
60.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$134,319
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living B+
91.9 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime C
150 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Collierville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 92/100 (A+) · 60.6%
Household income: 91/100 (A+) · $134,319
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 2.0%
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Violent crime: 58/100 (C) · 150 /100k
Where Collierville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Collierville's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Collierville highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Collierville, TN (this city): home $458,300, crime 1,419/100k
Wake Forest, NC : home $435,000, crime 1,452/100k
Hoffman Estates, IL : home $340,400, crime 1,142/100k
Summerville, SC : home $295,700, crime 1,991/100k
Westfield, IN : home $391,900, crime 686/100k
Aliso Viejo, CA : home $863,800, crime 1,003/100k
Spring Hill, TN : home $452,400, crime 663/100k
Cleveland, TN : home $241,800, crime 2,837/100k
Smyrna, TN : home $326,700, crime 2,665/100k
Gallatin, TN : home $343,700, crime 957/100k
Kingsport, TN : home $203,000, crime 3,401/100k
Bartlett, TN : home $283,700, crime 1,534/100k
How does Collierville compare to other US cities?
Collierville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value82% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety49% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Tennessee alone, Collierville ranks #81 of 174 Tennessee cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Collierville against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Tennessee only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Tennessee-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Collierville near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Collierville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Collierville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#13 of 458
97th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#25 of 455
95th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#403 of 482
16th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#16 of 482
96th percentile in Tennessee
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Tennessee only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
91st percentile nationally for median household income · 49th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Collierville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Collierville's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Collierville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$458,30018th percentilemore affordable than 18% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Collierville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,623 of 15,516
More affordable than 44% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#194 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.4×, Collierville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,623 of 15,516 and #194 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$134,319Collierville, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Collierville, TN median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Collierville, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)60.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
51,212
Median Income
$134,319
Median Home Value
$458,300
Median Age
39.8
Poverty Rate
2.0%
Labor force participation
63.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
60.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1418.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
150.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1268.7
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
61.1°F
Annual Precipitation
57.0"
Annual Snowfall
1.4"
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Collierville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
51,192 residents
2021
51,107 residents
2022
51,346 residents
2023
51,459 residents
2024
52,060 residents
2025
51,909 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
181
housing units authorized
Single-Family
151
detached homes
Multifamily
30
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
199
199
0
$80.8M
2020
191
191
0
$44.7M
2021
271
271
0
$70.7M
2022
172
172
0
$43.1M
2023
345
222
123
$134.1M
2024
181
151
30
$84.7M
Permit volume decreased 9% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.6 minutes
Drive Alone
72.9%
Carpool
6.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
19.3%
Other
1.3%
Based on 24,628 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Tennessee statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $218
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Tennessee at $218 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Tennessee statewide averages, not a meter reading for Collierville. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Tennessee's BEA cost-of-living index is 91.9 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Collierville is $1,118/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Tennessee statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 52.5 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Tennessee statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Collierville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Collierville compares to similar-size Tennessee cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.