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SheetTN-JONESBOROUGH-TN · Jonesborough, TN 6,056 pop · income 40th 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 Jonesborough
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Jonesborough on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Puerto Real c… · lowest
20,318
Puerto Real c… · lowest
20,318 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #1
Jonesborough · this city
63,155
Jonesborough · this city
63,155 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #2
Marine City · near
63,156
Marine City · near
63,156 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #3
Almedia · near
63,158
Almedia · near
63,158 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #4
Bettsville · near
63,162
Bettsville · near
63,162 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #5
Spring Gardens · near
63,162
Spring Gardens · near
63,162 median HH income
59.3% of the leader · rank #6
Elburn · highest
106,506
Elburn · highest
106,506 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 Jonesborough 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: 6,056.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Jonesborough - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Jonesborough places in the 40th percentile for household income and the 47th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
40th
percentile, household income
55th
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
47th
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: Jonesborough, TN
Jonesborough is a small town in Tennessee, home to 6,056 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Jonesborough report a median income of $63,155 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 12.8%. Typical homes in Jonesborough are valued around $247,900, and the median resident age is 39.4 years. Educational attainment runs 21.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 53.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 192 residential building permits were authorized in Jonesborough (Building Boom), up 96% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Jonesborough reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1481.1 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: 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. 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 Jonesborough'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 work and mobility to reported crime to housing and income to schools and households to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Jonesborough, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Jonesborough?
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 67.4%. 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 Jonesborough?
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 1481.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 35% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
How far does income reach against housing in Jonesborough?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.8%, 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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Which cities make useful reference points for Jonesborough?
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Kingston (6,042 residents, $70,532 income); Harriman (6,021 residents, $42,183 income); Erwin (6,001 residents, $45,422 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pollock Pines, CA (6,056 residents); Avon, CO (6,057 residents); Wayne, NE (6,055 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Jonesborough?
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 21.2% 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+
21.2%
Poverty estimate
12.8%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Jonesborough 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 +1,079 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +18.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 192 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
+18.3%
2025 estimate
6,990
2020 estimate
5,911
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 12.8% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
D
City profile score · Jonesborough, TN
48/100
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 C
150 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$63,155
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
12.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Jonesborough profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Violent crime: 58/100 (C) · 150 /100k
Household income: 39/100 (F) · $63,155
Bachelor's+ share: 38/100 (F) · 21.2%
Poverty rate: 29/100 (F) · 12.8%
Where Jonesborough sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Jonesborough'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 - Jonesborough highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Jonesborough, TN (this city): home $247,900, crime 1,481/100k
Avon, CO : home $689,000, crime 3,002/100k
Wayne, NE : home $198,600, crime 674/100k
Elburn, IL : home $358,200, crime 584/100k
Kingston, TN : home $204,200, crime 428/100k
Harriman, TN : home $162,500, crime 4,067/100k
Millersville, TN : home $280,800, crime 699/100k
Loudon, TN : home $220,900, crime 698/100k
How does Jonesborough compare to other US cities?
Where Jonesborough sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income40% higher than other cities
Home value55% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety47% 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: Jonesborough ranks #84 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 Jonesborough 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 Jonesborough near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Jonesborough ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Jonesborough only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#178 of 458
61st percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#117 of 455
74th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#189 of 482
61st percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#168 of 482
65th 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
40th percentile nationally for median household income · 47th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Jonesborough's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Jonesborough'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 Jonesborough's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$247,90045th percentilemore affordable than 45% 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
Jonesborough's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,477 of 15,516
More affordable than 32% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,220 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Jonesborough sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,477 of 15,516 and #8,220 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
$63,155Jonesborough, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Jonesborough, 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 Jonesborough, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,056
Median Income
$63,155
Median Home Value
$247,900
Median Age
39.4
Poverty Rate
12.8%
Labor force participation
53.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1481.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
149.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1331.5
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
Jonesborough's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,911 residents
2021
5,843 residents
2022
6,152 residents
2023
6,459 residents
2024
6,724 residents
2025
6,990 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
192
housing units authorized
Single-Family
99
detached homes
Multifamily
93
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
31.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
98
98
0
$14.1M
2020
76
76
0
$12.2M
2021
84
76
8
$17.4M
2022
160
111
49
$36.1M
2023
149
31
118
$18.5M
2024
192
99
93
$42.5M
Permit volume increased 96% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
67.4%
Carpool
8.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.9%
Work from Home
17.6%
Other
2.4%
Based on 2,737 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 Jonesborough. 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 Jonesborough 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 Jonesborough sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Jonesborough 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.