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Place dossier plate
SheetTN-MORRIS-CHAPEL-TN · Morris Chapel, TN 235 pop · income 2nd 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 Morris Chapel
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Morris Chapel on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Iron · lowest
17,500
Iron · lowest
17,500 median HH income
7.0% of the leader · rank #1
Villanueva · near
28,665
Villanueva · near
28,665 median HH income
11.5% of the leader · rank #2
Pembine · near
28,672
Pembine · near
28,672 median HH income
11.5% of the leader · rank #3
Brewer · near
28,682
Brewer · near
28,682 median HH income
11.5% of the leader · rank #4
Morris Chapel · this city
28,688
Morris Chapel · this city
28,688 median HH income
11.5% of the leader · rank #5
Pomona · near
28,693
Pomona · near
28,693 median HH income
11.5% of the leader · rank #6
Candlewood La… · highest
250,001
Candlewood La… · 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Morris Chapel on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 235.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Morris Chapel places in the 2nd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
2nd
percentile, household income
34th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Morris Chapel, TN
Tennessee's Morris Chapel is a small town, with 235 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Morris Chapel report a median income of $28,688 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 64.9%. The median resident age is 64.3 years. Educational attainment runs 34.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 43.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $218 across Tennessee, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Morris Chapel report an average commute of 26.8 minutes, with 100.0% driving alone and 0.0% 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 Morris Chapel'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Morris Chapel, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Morris Chapel?
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.
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Westpoint (240 residents, $41,250 income); Graball (242 residents, $86,379 income); Medon (243 residents, $57,375 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Almyra, AR (235 residents); Candlewood Lake Club, CT (235 residents); Worthington Springs, FL (235 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 Morris Chapel?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 100.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 26.8 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. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 64.9% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
F
City profile score · Morris Chapel, TN
32/100
4 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 B-
34.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$28,688
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
64.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Morris Chapel profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.9%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $28,688
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 64.9%
How does Morris Chapel compare to other US cities?
Here's how Morris Chapel stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income2% higher than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Morris Chapel 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 Morris Chapel near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Morris Chapel ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Morris Chapel only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#447 of 458
2nd percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#5 of 482
99th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#70 of 482
85th 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
2nd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$28,688Morris Chapel, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Morris Chapel, 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 Morris Chapel, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)64.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)43.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
235
Median Income
$28,688
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
64.3
Poverty Rate
64.9%
Labor force participation
43.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.9%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
26.8 minutes
Drive Alone
100.0%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.0%
Based on 103 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 Morris Chapel. 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 Morris Chapel 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 Morris Chapel sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Morris Chapel 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, 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.