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Place dossier plate
SheetTN-HENDERSONVILLE-TN · Hendersonville, TN 62,390 pop · income 72nd pct · 43 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 Hendersonville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hendersonville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Kingsport · lowest
50,436
Kingsport · lowest
50,436 median HH income
40.8% of the leader · rank #1
Tiverton · near
91,493
Tiverton · near
91,493 median HH income
74.0% of the leader · rank #2
Seven Lakes · near
91,495
Seven Lakes · near
91,495 median HH income
74.0% of the leader · rank #3
Pooler · near
91,497
Pooler · near
91,497 median HH income
74.0% of the leader · rank #4
Plummer · near
91,500
Plummer · near
91,500 median HH income
74.0% of the leader · rank #5
Hendersonville · this city
91,503
Hendersonville · this city
91,503 median HH income
74.0% of the leader · rank #6
Horizon West · highest
123,586
Horizon West · highest
123,586 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 Hendersonville 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: 62,390.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hendersonville - the verdict
Hendersonville ranks in the 72nd percentile for household income and the 70th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
72nd
percentile, household income
77th
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
70th
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: Hendersonville, TN
Tennessee's Hendersonville is a small city, with 62,390 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Hendersonville brings in $91,503 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.3%. Typical homes in Hendersonville are valued around $396,500, and the median resident age is 40.5 years. Educational attainment runs 43.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 66.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 291 residential building permits were authorized in Hendersonville (Construction Slowdown), down 33% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Hendersonville reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 837.4 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,118 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Tennessee run around $218, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Hendersonville'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 population change to housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hendersonville, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Hendersonville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 837.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 63% 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 Hendersonville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,153 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 291 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 Hendersonville?
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 Bartlett (56,998 residents, $100,660 income); Jackson (68,098 residents, $51,552 income); Kingsport (55,807 residents, $50,436 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Taylor, MI (62,405 residents); Huntersville, NC (62,458 residents); Sanford, FL (62,292 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.
What can 43 Census tracts reveal inside Hendersonville?
PlainCities matches 43 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.
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 Hendersonville?
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 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.3×
Home value
$396,500
Household income
$91,503
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 Hendersonville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.4%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
75.4%
Work from home
17.9%
Public transit
0.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 32,793 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Hendersonville?
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 16 public schools within the city match. 43.6% 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
3.3%
Bachelor's degree+
43.6%
Matched public schools
16
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 B+
43.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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+
3.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B
$91,503
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B-
123 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Hendersonville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.6%
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.3%
Household income: 71/100 (B) · $91,503
Violent crime: 65/100 (B-) · 123 /100k
Where Hendersonville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hendersonville'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 - Hendersonville highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Hendersonville, TN (this city): home $396,500, crime 837/100k
Taylor, MI : home $141,200, crime 2,855/100k
Huntersville, NC : home $439,300, crime 1,507/100k
Sanford, FL : home $272,900, crime 2,795/100k
La Habra, CA : home $716,700, crime 2,523/100k
Council Bluffs, IA : home $164,300, crime 2,873/100k
Bartlett, TN : home $283,700, crime 1,534/100k
Jackson, TN : home $195,000, crime 4,111/100k
Kingsport, TN : home $203,000, crime 3,401/100k
Smyrna, TN : home $326,700, crime 2,665/100k
Spring Hill, TN : home $452,400, crime 663/100k
Johnson City, TN : home $238,000, crime 2,705/100k
How does Hendersonville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Hendersonville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income72% higher than other cities
Home value77% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety70% 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, Hendersonville ranks #38 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 Hendersonville 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 Hendersonville near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hendersonville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hendersonville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#53 of 458
88th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#36 of 455
92nd percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#382 of 482
20th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#36 of 482
93rd 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
72nd percentile nationally for median household income · 70th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hendersonville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hendersonville'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 Hendersonville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$396,50023rd percentilemore affordable than 23% 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
Hendersonville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,614 of 15,516
More affordable than 25% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#365 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.3×, Hendersonville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,614 of 15,516 and #365 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
$91,503Hendersonville, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hendersonville, 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 Hendersonville, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
62,390
Median Income
$91,503
Median Home Value
$396,500
Median Age
40.5
Poverty Rate
3.3%
Labor force participation
66.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
837.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
123.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
714.2
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
16
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hendersonville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
62,113 residents
2021
62,453 residents
2022
63,056 residents
2023
63,786 residents
2024
64,104 residents
2025
64,266 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
291
housing units authorized
Single-Family
291
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
432
432
0
$126.4M
2020
335
335
0
$121.1M
2021
454
454
0
$160.7M
2022
384
384
0
$142.6M
2023
265
265
0
$115.8M
2024
291
291
0
$125.5M
Permit volume decreased 33% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.4%
Carpool
5.2%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
17.9%
Other
0.6%
Based on 32,793 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 Hendersonville. 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 Hendersonville 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 Hendersonville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hendersonville 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.