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SheetTN-NOLENSVILLE-TN · Nolensville, TN 14,545 pop · income 96th 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 Nolensville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Nolensville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Reidsville · lowest
42,702
Reidsville · lowest
42,702 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #1
Hillsdale · near
169,862
Hillsdale · near
169,862 median HH income
98.4% of the leader · rank #2
Nolensville · this city
170,068
Nolensville · this city
170,068 median HH income
98.5% of the leader · rank #3
Mount Sinai · near
170,188
Mount Sinai · near
170,188 median HH income
98.6% of the leader · rank #4
Marshallville · near
170,197
Marshallville · near
170,197 median HH income
98.6% of the leader · rank #5
Shrub Oak · near
170,225
Shrub Oak · near
170,225 median HH income
98.6% of the leader · rank #6
Key Biscayne · highest
172,604
Key Biscayne · highest
172,604 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 Nolensville 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: 14,545.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Nolensville - the verdict
Nationally, Nolensville sits in the 96th percentile for household income and the 94th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
96th
percentile, household income
93rd
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
94th
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: Nolensville, TN
Tennessee's Nolensville is a small town, with 14,545 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Nolensville households earn a median of $170,068 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.0%. Typical homes in Nolensville are valued around $695,100, and the median resident age is 36.6 years. Educational attainment runs 68.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 72.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 62 residential building permits were authorized in Nolensville (Construction Slowdown), down 83% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Nolensville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 257.4 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,118 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Tennessee's average monthly utility costs around $218 (state average). Commute times here average 25.4 minutes, with 63.6% driving alone and 29.5% 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 Nolensville'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 reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Nolensville, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
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. Population change
Is Nolensville 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 +1,752 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +12.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 62 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Nolensville?
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 257.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 89% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the education layer cover for Nolensville?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 68.3% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Nolensville?
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Elizabethton (14,364 residents, $44,834 income); Athens (14,250 residents, $53,151 income); Arlington (14,989 residents, $125,909 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Parlier, CA (14,545 residents); Moultrie, GA (14,545 residents); Edgewater, NJ (14,544 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Nolensville?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.0%, 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.
Household income
$170,068
Home value
$695,100
Value / income
4.1×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Nolensville?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 63.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.4 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
29.5%
Drive alone
63.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,847 workers age 16+.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
A+
City profile score · Nolensville, TN
91/100
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.
Household income A+
$170,068
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
68.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A+
1.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime A-
50 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
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.
Nolensville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $170,068
Bachelor's+ share: 97/100 (A+) · 68.3%
Poverty rate: 93/100 (A+) · 1.0%
Violent crime: 84/100 (A-) · 50 /100k
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Where Nolensville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Nolensville'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 - Nolensville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Nolensville, TN (this city): home $695,100, crime 257/100k
Parlier, CA : home $236,100, crime 1,864/100k
Moultrie, GA : home $155,900, crime 6,070/100k
Edgewater, NJ : home $723,400, crime 1,321/100k
Reidsville, NC : home $139,000, crime 3,332/100k
Key Biscayne, FL : home $1,238,700, crime 832/100k
Elizabethton, TN : home $159,700, crime 1,708/100k
Athens, TN : home $197,300, crime 4,288/100k
White House, TN : home $311,200, crime 971/100k
McMinnville, TN : home $147,200, crime 2,307/100k
How does Nolensville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Nolensville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value93% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety94% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Tennessee and the picture shifts: Nolensville ranks #2 of 174 Tennessee cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Nolensville 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 Nolensville near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Nolensville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Nolensville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#8 of 458
98th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#6 of 455
99th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#420 of 482
13th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#12 of 482
98th 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
96th percentile nationally for median household income · 94th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Nolensville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Nolensville'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 Nolensville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$695,1007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
Nolensville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,938 of 15,516
More affordable than 30% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,055 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.1×, Nolensville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,938 of 15,516 and #2,055 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
$170,068Nolensville, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Nolensville, 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 Nolensville, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)68.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
14,545
Median Income
$170,068
Median Home Value
$695,100
Median Age
36.6
Poverty Rate
1.0%
Labor force participation
72.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
68.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
257.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
50.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
207.2
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
Nolensville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
14,037 residents
2021
14,790 residents
2022
15,217 residents
2023
15,433 residents
2024
15,740 residents
2025
15,789 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
62
housing units authorized
Single-Family
62
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
360
360
0
$175.9M
2020
454
454
0
$221.8M
2021
521
521
0
$254.6M
2022
452
452
0
$220.9M
2023
121
110
11
$94.8M
2024
62
62
0
$61.5M
Permit volume decreased 83% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.4 minutes
Drive Alone
63.6%
Carpool
6.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
29.5%
Based on 7,847 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 Nolensville. 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 Nolensville 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 Nolensville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Nolensville 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.