37716Clinton, Tennessee

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 37716.

65out of 100
Area Score
Top 32% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 40% of 6,210 published ZIP areas59
SchoolsTop 42% of 4,422 published ZIP areas57
GrowthTop 18% of 5,428 published ZIP areas68
Housing affordabilityTop 29% of 6,685 published ZIP areas91
ClimateTop 26% of 6,789 published ZIP areas76
Physical resilience4124th of 6,709 published ZIP areas47
Access5101st of 6,791 published ZIP areas83
Economic stability4798th of 6,742 published ZIP areas47
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.7% and median household income $64,915, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Rent takes 18% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.8 times that income.

A typical July reaches 89°F and a typical January falls to 30°F, on thirty-year normals.

At a glance

Population
27,425
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$64,915
Bottom 39% nationally
Density
329/sq mi
83.5 sq mi of land
Median age
42.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Clinton
Tennessee
Metro area
Knoxville, TN
Nearest major airport
TYS
22 mi · Mc Ghee Tyson
Median home value
$244,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.7% is lower than 78% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.3% over the past year, to 35,023 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,684$64,915Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,793$34,987Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.3%Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.0 minBottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher22.1%Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment35,023Bottom 36%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.4%Top 12%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.3%Bottom 39%June 2026
Labor force36,363Bottom 36%June 2026
Labor force participation57.9%Bottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$59,890Bottom 17%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$47,080Bottom 20%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.1%Bottom 45%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.7%Bottom 22%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202465k54k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $64,915 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 — Knoxville, TN
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers12,730$27,720
Retail Salespersons12,430$31,150
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand10,120$37,400
Registered Nurses9,500$77,240
General and Operations Managers8,660$104,590
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers8,130$59,100

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 Clinton, TN, the city containing this ZIP code.

35% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 34% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
Math proficiency
34.9%
Top 47% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
34.0%
Top 37% in Tennessee
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Clinton High SchoolAnderson County1,021
Anderson County High SchoolAnderson County1,019
Clinton Middle SchoolAnderson County62427%27%
Clinton ElementaryClinton54047%45%
Grand Oaks ElementaryAnderson County30341%38%
South Clinton ElementaryClinton23141%45%
North Clinton ElementaryClinton19228%24%
Dutch Valley ElementaryAnderson County13510%10%
Anderson County Head Start / PreschoolAnderson County64
Clinch River Community SchoolAnderson County0
Anderson County Career Technical CenterAnderson County0

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Tennessee’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $951 takes 18% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.8 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
17.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$951
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$244,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.76Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate75.7%Bottom 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±47211,725Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$70$951Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$14,935$244,000Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.6%Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.4%Bottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
68/ 100
Top 18% of 5,428 published city 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: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 4.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
44
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.3
Top 37% nationally
Year over year
+19%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

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

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 89°F and January a low of 30°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 55.5 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station OAK RIDGE ASOS, 6.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation55.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low30°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high89°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing40°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

47 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and earthquake.

LandslideModerate
EarthquakeElevated
TornadoModerate
LightningModerate
Inland floodingModerate
Winter weatherModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, strong wind, ice storm, hail, wildfire, hurricane, heat wave, drought.

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 offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Anderson County records 3.4 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 12.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 68.5 per 100,000 residents in Anderson County.

Homicide
3.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
68.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
17.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Anderson County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 37716 rather than 37716 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

1 major airport lies within 100 miles, the nearest 22 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mc Ghee TysonTYS22 mi10,000 ft
Tri-CitiesTRI101 mi8,000 ft
Asheville RgnlAVL102 mi8,002 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 periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 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 browse every source.

37716 vs Clinton

How this ZIP area compares with Clinton as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

37716
Clinton
Median household income
$64,915
vs
$68,882
Per capita income
$34,987
vs
$37,309
Population density
329/sq mi
vs
881/sq mi
Median home value
$244,000
vs
$225,000
Median gross rent
$951
vs
$962
Homeownership rate
75.7%
vs
63.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher
22.1%
vs
20.0%
Poverty rate
12.3%
vs
12.7%
Median age
42.8
vs
43.3

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.