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Place dossier plate
SheetTN-GREENEVILLE-TN · Greeneville, TN 15,531 pop · income 22nd pct · 17 tracts
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 Greeneville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Greeneville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Elizabethton · lowest
44,834
Elizabethton · lowest
44,834 median HH income
26.4% of the leader · rank #1
Staples · near
51,506
Staples · near
51,506 median HH income
30.3% of the leader · rank #2
Utica · near
51,513
Utica · near
51,513 median HH income
30.3% of the leader · rank #3
Greeneville · this city
51,516
Greeneville · this city
51,516 median HH income
30.3% of the leader · rank #4
Harris · near
51,517
Harris · near
51,517 median HH income
30.3% of the leader · rank #5
Tynan · near
51,523
Tynan · near
51,523 median HH income
30.3% of the leader · rank #6
Nolensville · highest
170,068
Nolensville · highest
170,068 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 Greeneville 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: 15,531.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Greeneville - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Greeneville places in the 22nd percentile for household income and the 29th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
22nd
percentile, household income
46th
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
29th
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: Greeneville, TN
Greeneville is a small town in Tennessee, home to 15,531 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Greeneville report a median income of $51,516 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 10.5%. Greeneville's housing stock carries a median value of $210,700, and the median resident age is 40.1 years. 25.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 49.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 144 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 747% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2155.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Tennessee run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Tennessee scores 91.9 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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. Natural-hazard exposure scores 52.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Greeneville'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 within-city variation to population change to schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Greeneville, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Greeneville?
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 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can 17 Census tracts reveal inside Greeneville?
PlainCities matches 17 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Is Greeneville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +626 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 144 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 Greeneville?
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 Seymour (15,914 residents, $85,240 income); Arlington (14,989 residents, $125,909 income); Dyersburg (16,075 residents, $51,846 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Tanque Verde, AZ (15,531 residents); Jackson, MO (15,532 residents); Frankfort, IN (15,536 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Greeneville?
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 17 public schools within the city match. 25.0% 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
10.5%
Bachelor's degree+
25.0%
Matched public schools
17
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Greeneville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.9%. 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
83.9%
Work from home
6.7%
Public transit
0.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,958 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Greeneville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2155.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 5% 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.
Total reported rate
2155.6
Violent rate
258.4
Property rate
1897.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 D
25.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
258 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
10.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$51,516
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Greeneville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 49/100 (D) · 25.0%
Violent crime: 39/100 (F) · 258 /100k
Poverty rate: 38/100 (F) · 10.5%
Household income: 22/100 (F) · $51,516
Where Greeneville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Greeneville'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 - Greeneville highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Greeneville, TN (this city): home $210,700, crime 2,156/100k
Jackson, MO : home $227,600, crime 1,117/100k
Frankfort, IN : home $122,800, crime 1,171/100k
Carthage, MO : home $133,500, crime 1,460/100k
Dyersburg, TN : home $170,900, crime 6,012/100k
Dickson, TN : home $263,100, crime 2,792/100k
Nolensville, TN : home $695,100, crime 257/100k
Elizabethton, TN : home $159,700, crime 1,708/100k
How does Greeneville compare to other US cities?
Greeneville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income22% higher than other cities
Home value46% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety29% 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, Greeneville ranks #116 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 Greeneville 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 Greeneville near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Greeneville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Greeneville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#279 of 458
39th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#163 of 455
64th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#230 of 482
52nd percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#131 of 482
73rd 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
22nd percentile nationally for median household income · 29th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Greeneville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Greeneville'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 Greeneville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$210,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 54% 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
Greeneville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,946 of 15,516
More affordable than 29% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,057 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.1×, Greeneville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,946 of 15,516 and #2,057 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$51,516Greeneville, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Greeneville, 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 Greeneville, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)25.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,531
Median Income
$51,516
Median Home Value
$210,700
Median Age
40.1
Poverty Rate
10.5%
Labor force participation
49.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
25.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2155.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
258.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1897.1
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
17
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Greeneville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
15,515 residents
2021
15,436 residents
2022
15,527 residents
2023
15,748 residents
2024
15,984 residents
2025
16,141 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
144
housing units authorized
Single-Family
72
detached homes
Multifamily
72
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
17
17
0
$3.1M
2020
53
51
2
$7.7M
2021
58
58
0
$7.5M
2022
50
50
0
$10.2M
2023
88
88
0
$16.6M
2024
144
72
72
$26.8M
Permit volume increased 747% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
83.9%
Carpool
7.3%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
6.7%
Based on 5,958 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 Greeneville. 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 Greeneville 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 Greeneville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Greeneville 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.