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SheetTN-MUNFORD-TN · Munford, TN 6,459 pop · income 68th 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 Munford
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Munford on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sweetwater · lowest
44,661
Sweetwater · lowest
44,661 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #1
Maryland Heig… · near
86,485
Maryland Heig… · near
86,485 median HH income
84.4% of the leader · rank #2
Bull Run CDP… · near
86,487
Bull Run CDP… · near
86,487 median HH income
84.4% of the leader · rank #3
Munford · this city
86,492
Munford · this city
86,492 median HH income
84.4% of the leader · rank #4
East Haven · near
86,498
East Haven · near
86,498 median HH income
84.4% of the leader · rank #5
Orange Blossom · near
86,500
Orange Blossom · near
86,500 median HH income
84.4% of the leader · rank #6
Milford · highest
102,521
Milford · highest
102,521 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 Munford 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: 6,459.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Munford - the verdict
Nationally, Munford sits in the 68th percentile for household income and the 61st percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
68th
percentile, household income
52nd
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
61st
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: Munford, TN
Munford is a small town in Tennessee, home to 6,459 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Munford brings in $86,492 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.9%. Typical homes in Munford are valued around $234,600, and the median resident age is 32.4 years. 20.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 61.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 57 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 43% from five years earlier. Munford reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1072.3 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: the state registers 91.9 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,118 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Tennessee run around $218, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 27.3 minutes, with 89.0% driving alone and 9.3% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Munford'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 reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Munford, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, 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.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Munford?
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 1072.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 53% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 20.4% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Munford?
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Sweetwater (6,462 residents, $44,661 income); Henderson (6,349 residents, $57,727 income); Pigeon Forge (6,345 residents, $53,839 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sheridan, OR (6,462 residents); Fairview CDP (Dutchess County), NY (6,454 residents); Brookhaven, WV (6,465 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Munford?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 89.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 27.3 minutes.
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 Munford 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 +669 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +10.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 57 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
+10.6%
2025 estimate
6,996
2020 estimate
6,327
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Munford?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.9%, 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.
Household income
$86,492
Home value
$234,600
Value / income
2.7×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 10.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
D
City profile score · Munford, 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.
Household income B-
$86,492
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
10.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
20.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
449 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Munford profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Household income: 66/100 (B-) · $86,492
Poverty rate: 36/100 (F) · 10.9%
Bachelor's+ share: 35/100 (F) · 20.4%
Violent crime: 19/100 (F) · 449 /100k
Where Munford sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Munford'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 - Munford highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Munford, TN (this city): home $234,600, crime 1,072/100k
De Soto, MO : home $144,000, crime 3,933/100k
Powell, WY : home $265,400, crime 1,459/100k
Milford, MI : home $348,600, crime 330/100k
Sweetwater, TN : home $166,000, crime 1,717/100k
Henderson, TN : home $130,100, crime 776/100k
Pigeon Forge, TN : home $258,700, crime 3,957/100k
Loudon, TN : home $220,900, crime 698/100k
How does Munford compare to other US cities?
Munford measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income68% higher than other cities
Home value52% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety61% 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, Munford ranks #57 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 Munford 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 Munford near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Munford ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Munford only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#64 of 458
86th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#134 of 455
71st percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#223 of 482
54th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#182 of 482
62nd 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
68th percentile nationally for median household income · 61st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Munford's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Munford'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 Munford's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$234,60048th percentilemore affordable than 48% 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
Munford's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,091 of 15,516
More affordable than 67% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,461 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Munford sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,091 of 15,516 and #4,461 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
$86,492Munford, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Munford, 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 Munford, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,459
Median Income
$86,492
Median Home Value
$234,600
Median Age
32.4
Poverty Rate
10.9%
Labor force participation
61.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1072.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
449.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
623.1
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Munford's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,327 residents
2021
6,414 residents
2022
6,608 residents
2023
6,749 residents
2024
6,918 residents
2025
6,996 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
57
housing units authorized
Single-Family
57
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
40
40
0
$9.5M
2020
57
57
0
$13.3M
2021
90
90
0
$21.5M
2022
61
61
0
$15.1M
2023
78
78
0
$21.7M
2024
57
57
0
$16.3M
Permit volume increased 43% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
27.3 minutes
Drive Alone
89.0%
Carpool
1.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
9.3%
Based on 3,091 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 Munford. 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 Munford 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 Munford sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Munford 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.