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Place dossier plate
SheetTN-FAIRVIEW-TN · Fairview, TN 9,751 pop · income 69th 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 Fairview
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fairview on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Brownsville · lowest
39,488
Brownsville · lowest
39,488 median HH income
25.6% of the leader · rank #1
Fairview · this city
88,333
Fairview · this city
88,333 median HH income
57.2% of the leader · rank #2
Waldron · near
88,333
Waldron · near
88,333 median HH income
57.2% of the leader · rank #3
Big Bow · near
88,333
Big Bow · near
88,333 median HH income
57.2% of the leader · rank #4
Fort Peck · near
88,333
Fort Peck · near
88,333 median HH income
57.2% of the leader · rank #5
Washington · near
88,333
Washington · near
88,333 median HH income
57.2% of the leader · rank #6
Mount Airy · highest
154,514
Mount Airy · highest
154,514 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 Fairview 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: 9,751.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Fairview - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Fairview places in the 69th percentile for household income and the 82nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
69th
percentile, household income
72nd
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
82nd
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: Fairview, TN
Fairview is a small town in Tennessee, home to 9,751 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Fairview brings in $88,333 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.1%. Home values in Fairview run a median of $354,900, and the median resident age is 33.1 years. About 36.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 66.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 174 residential building permits were authorized in Fairview (Slowing), down 12% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Fairview reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 590.7 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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). 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 Fairview'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 housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fairview, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
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
How far does income reach against housing in Fairview?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Fairview?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Fairview?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 590.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 74% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fairview?
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Brownsville (9,634 residents, $39,488 income); Winchester (9,600 residents, $59,497 income); Oakland (9,544 residents, $89,240 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fultondale, AL (9,753 residents); Keokuk, IA (9,748 residents); Washington, NC (9,754 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.
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.
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.
Population change
Is Fairview growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,367 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +14.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 174 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+14.4%
2025 estimate
10,877
2020 estimate
9,510
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 36.9% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
4
Bachelor's degree+
36.9%
Poverty estimate
8.1%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 8.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
B-
City profile score · Fairview, TN
66/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share B
36.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B-
$88,333
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B-
124 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
8.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Fairview profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 70/100 (B) · 36.9%
Household income: 68/100 (B-) · $88,333
Violent crime: 65/100 (B-) · 124 /100k
Poverty rate: 47/100 (D) · 8.1%
Where Fairview sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Fairview'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 - Fairview highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Fairview, TN (this city): home $354,900, crime 591/100k
Fultondale, AL : home $181,900, crime 3,011/100k
Keokuk, IA : home $93,700, crime 1,874/100k
Washington, NC : home $193,800, crime 3,900/100k
Mahomet, IL : home $293,200, crime 437/100k
Mount Airy, MD : home $474,800, crime 1,345/100k
Brownsville, TN : home $119,700, crime 3,541/100k
Winchester, TN : home $209,300, crime 2,968/100k
Oakland, TN : home $297,300, crime 580/100k
Halls, TN : home $275,900, crime 1,522/100k
Clinton, TN : home $204,700, crime 2,598/100k
Atoka, TN : home $283,500, crime 696/100k
How does Fairview compare to other US cities?
Here's how Fairview stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income69% higher than other cities
Home value72% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety82% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Tennessee, Fairview ranks #22 of 174 Tennessee cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Fairview 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 Fairview near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fairview ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fairview only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#59 of 458
87th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#50 of 455
89th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#281 of 482
41st percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#59 of 482
88th 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
69th percentile nationally for median household income · 82nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Fairview's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Fairview'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 Fairview's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$354,90028th percentilemore affordable than 28% 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
Fairview's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,756 of 15,516
More affordable than 31% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,402 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.0×, Fairview sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,756 of 15,516 and #8,402 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
$88,333Fairview, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fairview, 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 Fairview, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)36.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,751
Median Income
$88,333
Median Home Value
$354,900
Median Age
33.1
Poverty Rate
8.1%
Labor force participation
66.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
36.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
590.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
123.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
466.8
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fairview's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,510 residents
2021
9,741 residents
2022
10,013 residents
2023
10,273 residents
2024
10,531 residents
2025
10,877 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
174
housing units authorized
Single-Family
174
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
17.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
198
123
75
$29.6M
2020
96
96
0
$19.1M
2021
153
145
8
$37.3M
2022
142
118
24
$46.9M
2023
120
120
0
$38.9M
2024
174
174
0
$60.5M
Permit volume decreased 12% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.1%
Carpool
9.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
15.3%
Based on 5,010 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 Fairview. 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 Fairview 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 Fairview sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fairview 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.