37311 — Cleveland, Tennessee

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 37311. Its median household income runs 19% below Cleveland as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

52out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 29% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
Opportunity2,461st of 3,116 ZIP areas measured40
Schools2,578th of 3,047 ZIP areas measured22
GrowthTop 32% of 3,124 ZIP areas measured59
Housing affordabilityTop 34% of 3,112 ZIP areas measured73
ClimateTop 41% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured73
Physical resilienceTop 46% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured61
Access3,010th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured51
Economic stability2,877th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured23
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable ZIP areas measured: unemployment is 3.9% and the Opportunity signal places 37311 in the bottom 21%. The unemployment rate is published for Cleveland, TN, which contains 37311, rather than for 37311 alone.

Residential permitting has slowed: 433 units authorized over the past twelve months, 33% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Cleveland, TN, which contains 37311, rather than for 37311 alone.

Rent takes 30% of renter income here, at the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.0 times what its owners earn.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
30,720
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$47,153
Bottom 12% nationally
Density
613/sq mi
50.1 sq mi of land
Median age
33.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Cleveland
Tennessee
Metro area
Nearest major airport
TYS
71 mi · Mc Ghee Tyson
Median home value
$226,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Cleveland, TN, which contains 37311, is 3.9%, lower than in 67% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Cleveland, TN, which contains 37311, fell 1.2% over the past year, to 20,498 employed residents.

Median household income of $47,153 is lower than in 88% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsBradley County, TN’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$57,52527th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftBradley County, TN’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$52,36014th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$3,9242024 ACS 5-Year$47,153Bottom 12%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,7052024 ACS 5-Year$26,309Bottom 16%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year19.4%Bottom 18%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.3 min2024 ACS 5-Year22.6 minTop 23%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year19.6%Bottom 39%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year75.7%49th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentCleveland, TN’s figureJuly 202620,498Bottom 20%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Cleveland, TN’s figureJuly 2026−1.8%Bottom 27%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Cleveland, TN’s figureJuly 2026−1.2%Bottom 38%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceCleveland, TN’s figureJuly 202621,33020th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year68.4%Bottom 21%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageCleveland, TN Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$50,670Bottom 2%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wageCleveland, TN Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$40,230Bottom 3%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Cleveland, TN’s figureJuly 2026−0.7%Top 20%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateCleveland, TN’s figureJuly 20263.9%Top 33%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year7.0%35th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202447k42k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $47,153 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

Largest occupations — Cleveland, TN

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand1,900$38,460
Fast Food and Counter Workers1,830$26,140
Retail Salespersons1,230$32,160
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators1,100$44,110
Cashiers1,000$27,140
Stockers and Order Fillers990$32,870

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Cleveland, TN, the city containing this ZIP code.

31% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 33% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
—
Math proficiency
31.2%
Bottom 20% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
32.7%
Bottom 25% in Tennessee
All 10 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Bradley Central High SchoolBradley County1,649—19%35%
Ocoee Middle SchoolBradley County1,096—36%33%
Blythe-Bower ElementaryCleveland710—23%19%
Black Fox Elementary SchoolBradley County493—49%41%
Mayfield ElementaryCleveland446—36%31%
Prospect Elementary SchoolBradley County400—47%39%
Arnold Memorial ElementaryCleveland330—32%32%
G.R. Stuart ElementaryCleveland317—42%32%
North Cleveland GOAL AcademyBradley County0———
PIE Innovation CenterBradley County0———

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Tennessee’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 10% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 90.4, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Cleveland, TN Metro Area is up 55% over five years, and up 5.3% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $1,138 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.50% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,220, some 31% above the $932 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,220 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $48,800 a year, about 103% of the median household income here of $47,153.

The typical renter household here spends 30% of its income on rent, at the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $932 a month.

A median home at $226,800 costs 3.0 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $76,540, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
90.4

Prices here run about 10% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Cleveland, TN Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
29.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.0×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,220
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$932
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$226,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 37311’s median household income of $47,153, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Cleveland, TN Metro Area’s figure202390.4Top 12%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the Cleveland, TN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+5.3%83rd percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Cleveland, TN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+55.1%88th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Cleveland, TN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+117.5%83rd percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year3.0Bottom 41%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year46.6%7th percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±6982024 ACS 5-Year13,16189th percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$930Top 21%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,570Top 28%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,220Top 29%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$482024 ACS 5-Year$932Top 41%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$13,7242024 ACS 5-Year$226,80052nd percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1072024 ACS 5-Year$1,13823rd percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$6,6862024 ACS 5-Year$76,540Bottom 41%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.06%2024 ACS 5-Year0.50%13th percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year29.7%Bottom 42%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±872024 ACS 5-Year12979th percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year1.0%49th percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year9.6%65th percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±3352024 ACS 5-Year1,39493rd percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

59/ 100
Top 32% of 3,124 published ZIP profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 433 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 6% are in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Cleveland, TN, which contains 37311, rather than for 37311 alone.

At 8.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Cleveland, TN, which contains 37311, rather than for 37311 alone.

Units permitted
433
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
8.9
Top 16% nationally
Year over year
−33%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
5.8%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+1.2%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
52%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$57,525
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$52,360
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Hamilton County, TN 1,245 people · 21% of arrivals
  2. McMinn County, TN 375 people · 6.5% of arrivals
  3. Polk County, TN 286 people · 4.9% of arrivals
  4. Meigs County, TN 128 people · 2.2% of arrivals
  5. Whitfield County, GA 99 people · 1.7% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Hamilton County, TN 1,084 people · 23% of departures
  2. McMinn County, TN 423 people · 8.9% of departures
  3. Polk County, TN 359 people · 7.6% of departures
  4. Meigs County, TN 154 people · 3.2% of departures
  5. Knox County, TN 113 people · 2.4% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Bradley County, TN. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Cleveland, TN, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 32°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 55.0 inches, including 3.6 inches of snow.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CHATTANOOGA LOVELL AP, 16.6 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND5.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals55.0"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals3.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals32°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals39°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

61 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and tornado, with inland flooding alone responsible for 39% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

EarthquakeElevated
TornadoModerate
LightningModerate
Winter weatherModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, cold wave, inland flooding, hail, strong wind, ice storm, hurricane, drought, wildfire, heat wave, avalanche, tsunami, coastal flooding, volcanic activity.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Homicide
4.8
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
20.6
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
22.4
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
18.8
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around 37311 (Bradley County) rather than 37311 itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. A ZIP area is not a jurisdiction, so no department reports for one. Cleveland carries the figure where its department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

1 major airport lies within 100 miles, the nearest Mc Ghee Tyson at 71 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year90.5%Top 44%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle71 miBottom 5%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle1Bottom 1%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year8.7%Bottom 45%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mc Ghee TysonTYS71 mi10,000 ft
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta IntlATL105 mi12,390 ft
SmyrnaMQY109 mi8,038 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

37311 vs Cleveland

How this ZIP area compares with Cleveland as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like — a gap here is a real difference between the two places, not two surveys disagreeing.

37311
Cleveland
Median household income: Cleveland is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$47,153
vs
$58,559
Per capita income: Cleveland is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$26,309
vs
$32,659
Population density
613/sq mi
vs
1,570/sq mi
Median home value
$226,800
vs
$272,200
Median gross rent: 37311 is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$932
vs
$1,034
Homeownership rate
46.6%
vs
48.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher: Cleveland is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
19.6%
vs
30.2%
Poverty rate: Cleveland is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
19.4%
vs
16.0%
Median age
33.9
vs
36.4

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.