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SheetTN-SAVANNAH-TN · Savannah, TN 7,219 pop · income 9th pct · 8 tracts
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 Savannah
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Savannah on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
La Follette · lowest
34,678
La Follette · lowest
34,678 median HH income
27.5% of the leader · rank #1
Saltillo · near
41,382
Saltillo · near
41,382 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #2
Audubon · near
41,389
Audubon · near
41,389 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #3
Savannah · this city
41,396
Savannah · this city
41,396 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #4
Courtland · near
41,406
Courtland · near
41,406 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #5
Melville · near
41,406
Melville · near
41,406 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #6
Carmel · highest
126,224
Carmel · highest
126,224 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 Savannah 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: 7,219.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Savannah - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Savannah places in the 9th percentile for household income and the 14th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
9th
percentile, household income
31st
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
14th
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: Savannah, TN
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 7,219 residents in Savannah, a small town within Tennessee. The typical household in Savannah brings in $41,396 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 23.9%. Savannah's housing stock carries a median value of $163,100, and the median resident age is 36.9 years. About 12.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 44.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 24 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 71% from five years earlier. Savannah's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 3199.9 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 61.5°F with 59.2 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $218 across Tennessee, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Savannah'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to population change to within-city variation to housing and income to reported crime to 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 Savannah, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Savannah?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 61.5°F, with 59.2 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Tennessee is 52.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
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 5 public schools within the city match. 12.9% 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.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Savannah?
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 Dayton (7,191 residents, $56,692 income); La Follette (7,308 residents, $34,678 income); Church Hill (7,057 residents, $69,433 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Woodlawn CDP (Prince George's County), MD (7,221 residents); Canton, NY (7,222 residents); Carmel, NY (7,222 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.
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 Savannah growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +332 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 24 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.
2020 estimate
7,357
2025 estimate
7,689
Period change
+4.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Savannah?
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 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 23.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.9×
Home value
$163,100
Household income
$41,396
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Savannah?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3199.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 40% higher 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.
Total reported rate
3199.9
Violent rate
694.4
Property rate
2505.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Savannah?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 87.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Drive alone
87.9%
Work from home
4.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,437 workers age 16+.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 23.9% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
91.9 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Tennessee average
F
City profile score · Savannah, TN
23/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
12.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$41,396
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
23.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
694 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Savannah profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 14/100 (F) · 12.9%
Household income: 9/100 (F) · $41,396
Poverty rate: 7/100 (F) · 23.9%
Violent crime: 6/100 (F) · 694 /100k
Where Savannah sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Savannah'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 - Savannah highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Savannah, TN (this city): home $163,100, crime 3,200/100k
Souderton, PA : home $298,300, crime 890/100k
Jasper, TX : home $130,200, crime 2,503/100k
North Vernon, IN : home $107,900, crime 1,343/100k
Dayton, TN : home $152,200, crime 1,675/100k
La Follette, TN : home $106,000, crime 1,197/100k
Church Hill, TN : home $192,600, crime 301/100k
Fayetteville, TN : home $191,100, crime 2,826/100k
Greenbrier, TN : home $310,400, crime 619/100k
How does Savannah compare to other US cities?
Where Savannah sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income9% higher than other cities
Home value31% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
Safety14% 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, Savannah ranks #149 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 Savannah 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 Savannah near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Savannah ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Savannah only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#383 of 458
16th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#266 of 455
41st percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#58 of 482
88th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#321 of 482
33rd 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
9th percentile nationally for median household income · 14th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Savannah's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Savannah'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 Savannah's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$163,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 69% 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
Savannah's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,517 of 15,516
More affordable than 32% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,245 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Savannah sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,517 of 15,516 and #8,245 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$41,396Savannah, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Savannah, 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 Savannah, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)12.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)23.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)44.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,219
Median Income
$41,396
Median Home Value
$163,100
Median Age
36.9
Poverty Rate
23.9%
Labor force participation
44.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
12.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3199.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
694.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2505.4
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
61.5°F
Annual Precipitation
59.2"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Savannah's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,357 residents
2021
7,309 residents
2022
7,385 residents
2023
7,476 residents
2024
7,590 residents
2025
7,689 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
24
housing units authorized
Single-Family
12
detached homes
Multifamily
12
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
14
14
0
$1.9M
2020
8
8
0
$0.8M
2021
12
12
0
$1.7M
2022
34
22
12
$4.1M
2023
45
25
20
$6.4M
2024
24
12
12
$3.4M
Permit volume increased 71% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
87.9%
Carpool
6.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
4.2%
Other
1.3%
Based on 2,437 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 Savannah. 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 Savannah 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 Savannah sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Savannah 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.