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SheetTN-MEDINA-TN · Medina, TN 5,268 pop · income 74th 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 Medina
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Medina on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Smithville · lowest
29,507
Smithville · lowest
29,507 median HH income
23.1% of the leader · rank #1
South Sarasota · near
93,958
South Sarasota · near
93,958 median HH income
73.6% of the leader · rank #2
Wailuku · near
93,958
Wailuku · near
93,958 median HH income
73.6% of the leader · rank #3
West Dennis · near
93,958
West Dennis · near
93,958 median HH income
73.6% of the leader · rank #4
Medina · this city
93,964
Medina · this city
93,964 median HH income
73.6% of the leader · rank #5
Renner Corner · near
93,967
Renner Corner · near
93,967 median HH income
73.6% of the leader · rank #6
Wheatley Heig… · highest
127,589
Wheatley Heig… · highest
127,589 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 Medina 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: 5,268.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Medina - the verdict
Nationally, Medina sits in the 74th percentile for household income and the 89th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
74th
percentile, household income
58th
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
89th
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: Medina, TN
Tennessee's Medina is a small town, with 5,268 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Medina brings in $93,964 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.5%. Medina's housing stock carries a median value of $261,400, and the median resident age is 36.7 years. Educational attainment runs 37.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 73.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 51 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Growing), up 6% from five years earlier. Medina reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 406.8 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than 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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,118 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $218 across Tennessee, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Medina report an average commute of 20.1 minutes, with 78.9% driving alone and 13.5% working from home. 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 Medina'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Medina, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
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
Is Medina growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +659 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +12.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 51 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 Medina?
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 Ashland City (5,318 residents, $73,921 income); Madisonville (5,184 residents, $45,274 income); Bolivar (5,171 residents, $38,575 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Peppermill, MD (5,268 residents); Firthcliffe, NY (5,268 residents); Lehighton, PA (5,268 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 does the journey to work look like in Medina?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.1 minutes.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Medina?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 406.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 82% 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.
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 Medina?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 37.1% 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
5.5%
Bachelor's degree+
37.1%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Medina?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.8×
Home value
$261,400
Household income
$93,964
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 5.5% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
B-
City profile score · Medina, TN
67/100
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.
Household income B
$93,964
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B
37.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C-
177 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Medina profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Household income: 73/100 (B) · $93,964
Bachelor's+ share: 70/100 (B) · 37.1%
Poverty rate: 62/100 (C+) · 5.5%
Violent crime: 52/100 (C-) · 177 /100k
Where Medina sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Medina'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 - Medina highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Medina, TN (this city): home $261,400, crime 407/100k
Lehighton, PA : home $198,600, crime 1,312/100k
West Salem, WI : home $269,300, crime 1,244/100k
La Crescent, MN : home $244,500, crime 512/100k
Ashland City, TN : home $259,900, crime 1,205/100k
Madisonville, TN : home $202,600, crime 2,584/100k
Bolivar, TN : home $136,000, crime 3,751/100k
Smithville, TN : home $153,500, crime 1,650/100k
Pleasant View, TN : home $362,700, crime 333/100k
How does Medina compare to other US cities?
Where Medina sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value58% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety89% 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, Medina ranks #11 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 Medina 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 Medina near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Medina ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Medina only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#45 of 458
90th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#104 of 455
77th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#334 of 482
31st percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#57 of 482
88th 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
74th percentile nationally for median household income · 89th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Medina's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Medina'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 Medina's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$261,40042nd percentilemore affordable than 42% 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
Medina's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,485 of 15,516
More affordable than 65% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,773 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Medina sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,485 of 15,516 and #4,773 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$93,964Medina, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Medina, 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 Medina, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,268
Median Income
$93,964
Median Home Value
$261,400
Median Age
36.7
Poverty Rate
5.5%
Labor force participation
73.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
406.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
176.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
229.9
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Medina's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,154 residents
2021
5,250 residents
2022
5,395 residents
2023
5,531 residents
2024
5,689 residents
2025
5,813 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
51
housing units authorized
Single-Family
51
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
48
48
0
$11.9M
2020
43
43
0
$12.0M
2021
53
53
0
$17.2M
2022
45
45
0
$17.7M
2023
35
35
0
$12.9M
2024
51
51
0
$21.2M
Permit volume increased 6% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.1 minutes
Drive Alone
78.9%
Carpool
7.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
13.5%
Based on 2,750 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 Medina. 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 Medina 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 Medina sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Medina 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.