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Place dossier plate
SheetTN-DANDRIDGE-TN · Dandridge, TN 3,426 pop · income 29th 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 Dandridge
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Dandridge on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Somerville · lowest
31,063
Somerville · lowest
31,063 median HH income
21.9% of the leader · rank #1
Ajo · near
56,364
Ajo · near
56,364 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #2
South Roxana · near
56,364
South Roxana · near
56,364 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #3
Waynesboro · near
56,364
Waynesboro · near
56,364 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #4
Dandridge · this city
56,367
Dandridge · this city
56,367 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #5
McDonald · near
56,369
McDonald · near
56,369 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #6
Germantown Hi… · highest
141,719
Germantown Hi… · highest
141,719 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 Dandridge 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: 3,426.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Dandridge - the verdict
Dandridge ranks in the 29th percentile for household income and the 50th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
29th
percentile, household income
58th
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
50th
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: Dandridge, TN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 3,426 residents in Dandridge, a small town within Tennessee. Median household income here is $56,367 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.7%. Home values in Dandridge run a median of $260,800, and the median resident age is 44.7 years. About 12.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 46.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 31 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 288% from five years earlier. Dandridge reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1375.4 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).
Living costs in Tennessee run below the national norm: the state registers 91.9 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,118 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $218 across Tennessee, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Dandridge'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 reported crime to schools and households to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Dandridge, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Dandridge?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1375.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 40% 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.
What does the education layer cover for Dandridge?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 12.6% 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.
Is Dandridge growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +592 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +17.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 31 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 Dandridge?
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 Somerville (3,439 residents, $31,063 income); Oliver Springs (3,384 residents, $38,295 income); Wildwood Lake (3,490 residents, $61,824 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Yuma, CO (3,427 residents); Germantown Hills, IL (3,425 residents); Madison, OH (3,427 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 Dandridge?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.6×
Home value
$260,800
Household income
$56,367
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Dandridge?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Drive alone
77.9%
Work from home
9.2%
Public transit
0.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,324 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 9.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
D
City profile score · Dandridge, TN
42/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
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.
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 D
216 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
9.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$56,367
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
12.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Dandridge profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 216 /100k
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.7%
Household income: 29/100 (F) · $56,367
Bachelor's+ share: 14/100 (F) · 12.6%
Where Dandridge sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Dandridge'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 - Dandridge highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Dandridge, TN (this city): home $260,800, crime 1,375/100k
Madison, OH : home $190,900, crime 616/100k
Malvern, PA : home $460,400, crime 233/100k
Somerville, TN : home $301,400, crime 1,461/100k
Oliver Springs, TN : home $149,600, crime 1,574/100k
Newbern, TN : home $92,700, crime 1,260/100k
Centerville, TN : home $205,100, crime 503/100k
Tusculum, TN : home $247,800, crime 295/100k
How does Dandridge compare to other US cities?
Where Dandridge sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income29% higher than other cities
Home value58% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety50% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Tennessee and the picture shifts: Dandridge ranks #77 of 174 Tennessee cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Dandridge 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 Dandridge near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Dandridge ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Dandridge only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#230 of 458
50th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#105 of 455
77th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#246 of 482
49th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#326 of 482
32nd 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
29th percentile nationally for median household income · 50th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Dandridge's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Dandridge'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 Dandridge's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$260,80042nd percentilemore affordable than 42% 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
Dandridge's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,237 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,341 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.6×, Dandridge sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,237 of 15,516 and #9,341 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$56,367Dandridge, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Dandridge, 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 Dandridge, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)12.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)46.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,426
Median Income
$56,367
Median Home Value
$260,800
Median Age
44.7
Poverty Rate
9.7%
Labor force participation
46.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
12.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1375.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
215.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1159.7
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.
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Dandridge's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,355 residents
2021
3,359 residents
2022
3,500 residents
2023
3,622 residents
2024
3,850 residents
2025
3,947 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
31
housing units authorized
Single-Family
25
detached homes
Multifamily
6
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
8
8
0
$2.1M
2020
36
32
4
$10.9M
2021
27
15
12
$8.9M
2022
69
9
60
$14.5M
2023
104
51
53
$24.6M
2024
31
25
6
$10.4M
Permit volume increased 288% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.9%
Carpool
11.5%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
9.2%
Based on 1,324 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 Dandridge. 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 Dandridge 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 Dandridge sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Dandridge 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, 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.