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SheetTN-GOODLETTSVILLE-TN · Goodlettsville, TN 17,598 pop · income 44th 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 Goodlettsville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Goodlettsville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Calhoun · lowest
51,439
Calhoun · lowest
51,439 median HH income
28.0% of the leader · rank #1
Tull · near
65,893
Tull · near
65,893 median HH income
35.8% of the leader · rank #2
Altenburg · near
65,893
Altenburg · near
65,893 median HH income
35.8% of the leader · rank #3
Winchester · near
65,893
Winchester · near
65,893 median HH income
35.8% of the leader · rank #4
Goodlettsville · this city
65,898
Goodlettsville · this city
65,898 median HH income
35.8% of the leader · rank #5
Fair Haven · near
65,898
Fair Haven · near
65,898 median HH income
35.8% of the leader · rank #6
Port Washingt… · highest
183,964
Port Washingt… · highest
183,964 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 Goodlettsville 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: 17,598.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Goodlettsville - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Goodlettsville places in the 44th percentile for household income and the 63rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
44th
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
63rd
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: Goodlettsville, TN
Goodlettsville is a small town in Tennessee, home to 17,598 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $65,898 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.5%. Goodlettsville's housing stock carries a median value of $355,000, and the median resident age is 38.4 years. About 32.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 62.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 40 residential building permits were authorized in Goodlettsville (Construction Slowdown), down 59% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Goodlettsville reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1022.4 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). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 56.5°F with 55.6 inches of precipitation per year.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,118 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Tennessee run around $218, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Goodlettsville report an average commute of 22.8 minutes, with 74.3% driving alone and 14.6% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 52.5 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Goodlettsville'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 comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Goodlettsville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, 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
Which cities make useful reference points for Goodlettsville?
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Sevierville (18,105 residents, $55,106 income); Dickson (16,246 residents, $69,074 income); Springfield (18,985 residents, $58,741 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Buford, GA (17,611 residents); Calhoun, GA (17,611 residents); Port Washington, NY (17,613 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.
What physical conditions frame life in Goodlettsville?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 56.5°F, with 55.6 inches of precipitation. 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.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Goodlettsville?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.8 minutes.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Goodlettsville?
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 1022.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 55% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Goodlettsville?
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 32.7% 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
5
Bachelor's degree+
32.7%
Poverty estimate
4.5%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Goodlettsville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -282 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 40 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
-1.6%
2025 estimate
17,506
2020 estimate
17,788
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Goodlettsville?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.5%, 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.
Household income
$65,898
Home value
$355,000
Value / income
5.4×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 4.5% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
C+
City profile score · Goodlettsville, TN
62/100
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.
Poverty rate B-
4.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C+
127 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$65,898
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Goodlettsville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.5%
Violent crime: 64/100 (C+) · 127 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 32.7%
Household income: 43/100 (D) · $65,898
Where Goodlettsville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Goodlettsville'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 - Goodlettsville highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Goodlettsville, TN (this city): home $355,000, crime 1,022/100k
Port Washington, NY : home $976,200, crime 935/100k
Hernando, MS : home $282,200, crime 565/100k
Lebanon, IN : home $179,200, crime 1,296/100k
Sevierville, TN : home $264,000, crime 3,611/100k
Dickson, TN : home $263,100, crime 2,792/100k
Springfield, TN : home $235,200, crime 1,308/100k
Dyersburg, TN : home $170,900, crime 6,012/100k
Greeneville, TN : home $210,700, crime 2,156/100k
How does Goodlettsville compare to other US cities?
Where Goodlettsville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income44% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety63% 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: Goodlettsville ranks #56 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 Goodlettsville 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 Goodlettsville near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Goodlettsville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Goodlettsville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#158 of 458
66th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#49 of 455
89th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#355 of 482
26th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#82 of 482
83rd 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
44th percentile nationally for median household income · 63rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Goodlettsville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Goodlettsville'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 Goodlettsville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$355,00027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
Goodlettsville's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,426 of 15,516
More affordable than 13% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,771 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.4×, Goodlettsville sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,426 of 15,516 and #2,771 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$65,898Goodlettsville, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Goodlettsville, 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 Goodlettsville, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
17,598
Median Income
$65,898
Median Home Value
$355,000
Median Age
38.4
Poverty Rate
4.5%
Labor force participation
62.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1022.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
127.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
895.3
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
56.5°F
Annual Precipitation
55.6"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
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
Goodlettsville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
17,788 residents
2021
17,375 residents
2022
17,802 residents
2023
17,557 residents
2024
17,510 residents
2025
17,506 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
40
housing units authorized
Single-Family
19
detached homes
Multifamily
21
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
97
97
0
$31.5M
2020
128
128
0
$32.6M
2021
119
119
0
$30.0M
2022
445
9
436
$78.2M
2023
33
17
16
$10.6M
2024
40
19
21
$10.1M
Permit volume decreased 59% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.8 minutes
Drive Alone
74.3%
Carpool
7.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
14.6%
Other
2.8%
Based on 8,878 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 Goodlettsville. 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 Goodlettsville 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 Goodlettsville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Goodlettsville 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.