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Place dossier plate
SheetTN-MARTIN-TN · Martin, TN 10,864 pop · income 9th pct · 11 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 Martin
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Martin on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Canton · lowest
34,812
Canton · lowest
34,812 median HH income
19.4% of the leader · rank #1
Gadsden · near
41,504
Gadsden · near
41,504 median HH income
23.2% of the leader · rank #2
Mauna Loa Est… · near
41,509
Mauna Loa Est… · near
41,509 median HH income
23.2% of the leader · rank #3
Martin · this city
41,510
Martin · this city
41,510 median HH income
23.2% of the leader · rank #4
Maynard · near
41,515
Maynard · near
41,515 median HH income
23.2% of the leader · rank #5
Farmland · near
41,516
Farmland · near
41,516 median HH income
23.2% of the leader · rank #6
Maltby · highest
179,276
Maltby · highest
179,276 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 Martin 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: 10,864.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Martin - the verdict
Nationally, Martin sits in the 9th percentile for household income and the 50th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
9th
percentile, household income
36th
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
50th
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: Martin, TN
Martin is a small town in Tennessee, home to 10,864 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Martin brings in $41,510 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 17.9%. Home values in Martin run a median of $177,700, and the median resident age is 25.1 years. Educational attainment runs 29.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 51.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 23 residential building permits were authorized in Martin (Growing), up 15% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Martin reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1383.5 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,118 monthly. 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 Martin'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 population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to schools and households to work and mobility to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Martin, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Martin 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 +227 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 23 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Martin?
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 17.9%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Martin?
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Union City (11,040 residents, $45,523 income); Lenoir City (10,681 residents, $60,480 income); Millington (11,117 residents, $51,695 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Canton, MS (10,863 residents); Oak Ridge, NJ (10,860 residents); Maltby, WA (10,859 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.
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.
PlainCities matches 11 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Martin?
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 1383.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 39% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1085.1
Violent rate
298.4
Total reported rate
1383.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 29.3% 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+
29.3%
Poverty estimate
17.9%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Martin?
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 74.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.5%
Work from home
7.2%
Drive alone
74.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,783 workers age 16+.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 17.9% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
F
City profile score · Martin, TN
36/100
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 C
29.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
298 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
17.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$41,510
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Martin profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 57/100 (C) · 29.3%
Violent crime: 33/100 (F) · 298 /100k
Poverty rate: 17/100 (F) · 17.9%
Household income: 9/100 (F) · $41,510
Where Martin sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Martin'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 - Martin highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Martin, TN (this city): home $177,700, crime 1,384/100k
Manville, NJ : home $321,100, crime 1,064/100k
Fox Lake, IL : home $219,300, crime 1,944/100k
Union City, TN : home $138,400, crime 3,123/100k
Lenoir City, TN : home $214,300, crime 1,951/100k
Millington, TN : home $172,800, crime 4,404/100k
Collegedale, TN : home $332,700, crime 845/100k
Paris, TN : home $142,700, crime 1,853/100k
Atoka, TN : home $283,500, crime 696/100k
How does Martin compare to other US cities?
Martin measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income9% higher than other cities
Home value36% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety50% 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, Martin ranks #79 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 Martin 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 Martin near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Martin ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Martin only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#379 of 458
17th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#232 of 455
49th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#106 of 482
78th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#105 of 482
78th 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
9th percentile nationally for median household income · 50th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Martin's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Martin'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 Martin's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$177,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 64% 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
Martin'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
#11,471 of 15,516
More affordable than 26% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,209 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.3×, Martin sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,471 of 15,516 and #2,209 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
$41,510Martin, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Martin, 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 Martin, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)17.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,864
Median Income
$41,510
Median Home Value
$177,700
Median Age
25.1
Poverty Rate
17.9%
Labor force participation
51.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1383.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
298.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1085.1
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Martin's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,833 residents
2021
10,777 residents
2022
10,923 residents
2023
11,039 residents
2024
11,015 residents
2025
11,060 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
23
housing units authorized
Single-Family
23
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
20
20
0
$1.9M
2020
22
22
0
$2.1M
2021
27
27
0
$2.6M
2022
25
25
0
$2.4M
2023
23
23
0
$2.2M
2024
23
23
0
$2.2M
Permit volume increased 15% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.8%
Carpool
7.2%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
7.0%
Work from Home
7.2%
Other
3.3%
Based on 4,783 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 Martin. 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 Martin 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 Martin sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Martin 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.