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SheetTN-MILLINGTON-TN · Millington, TN 11,117 pop · income 22nd 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 Millington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Millington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lawrenceburg · lowest
41,458
Lawrenceburg · lowest
41,458 median HH income
16.6% of the leader · rank #1
Linn Valley · near
51,694
Linn Valley · near
51,694 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #2
Millington · this city
51,695
Millington · this city
51,695 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #3
Summersville · near
51,696
Summersville · near
51,696 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #4
New York Mills · near
51,696
New York Mills · near
51,696 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #5
Point · near
51,696
Point · near
51,696 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #6
Hillsborough · highest
250,001
Hillsborough · highest
250,001 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 Millington 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: 11,117.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Millington - the verdict
Millington ranks in the 22nd percentile for household income and the 6th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
22nd
percentile, household income
34th
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
6th
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: Millington, TN
Tennessee's Millington is a small town, with 11,117 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Millington report a median income of $51,695 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 12.9%. Home values in Millington run a median of $172,800, and the median resident age is 38.6 years. About 20.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 50.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Millington's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 4403.9 crimes per 100,000 residents, above 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). 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. 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 Millington'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 schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Millington, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Millington?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 20.0% 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.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Millington?
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 82.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Millington?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.9%, 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. 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 Millington?
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Collegedale (11,185 residents, $64,905 income); Union City (11,040 residents, $45,523 income); Martin (10,864 residents, $41,510 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Haysville, KS (11,117 residents); Del Aire, CA (11,115 residents); Burr Ridge, IL (11,119 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.
Population change
Is Millington 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 +2,370 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +22.4% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+22.4%
2025 estimate
12,953
2020 estimate
10,583
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Millington?
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 4403.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 93% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3801.4
Violent rate
602.5
Total reported rate
4403.9
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 F
20.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
12.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$51,695
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
603 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Millington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 34/100 (F) · 20.0%
Poverty rate: 28/100 (F) · 12.9%
Household income: 23/100 (F) · $51,695
Violent crime: 10/100 (F) · 603 /100k
Where Millington sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Millington'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 - Millington highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Millington, TN (this city): home $172,800, crime 4,404/100k
Haysville, KS : home $155,100, crime 1,562/100k
Burr Ridge, IL : home $694,800, crime 893/100k
Hillsborough, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 774/100k
Canyon Lake, CA : home $647,300, crime 802/100k
Collegedale, TN : home $332,700, crime 845/100k
Union City, TN : home $138,400, crime 3,123/100k
Martin, TN : home $177,700, crime 1,384/100k
Lenoir City, TN : home $214,300, crime 1,951/100k
Alcoa, TN : home $232,300, crime 1,745/100k
Lawrenceburg, TN : home $158,100, crime 1,800/100k
How does Millington compare to other US cities?
Where Millington sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income22% higher than other cities
Home value34% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety6% 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, Millington ranks #167 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 Millington 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 Millington near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Millington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Millington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#277 of 458
40th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#240 of 455
47th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#187 of 482
61st percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#187 of 482
61st 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 · 6th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Millington's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Millington'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 Millington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$172,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 66% 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
Millington's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,309 of 15,516
More affordable than 46% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,332 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.3×, Millington sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,309 of 15,516 and #1,332 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
$51,695Millington, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Millington, 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 Millington, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,117
Median Income
$51,695
Median Home Value
$172,800
Median Age
38.6
Poverty Rate
12.9%
Labor force participation
50.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4403.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
602.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3801.4
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Millington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,583 residents
2021
11,377 residents
2022
11,504 residents
2023
11,522 residents
2024
11,550 residents
2025
12,953 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.6%
Carpool
6.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
8.1%
Based on 4,613 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 Millington. 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 Millington 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 Millington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Millington 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.