Farragut, Tennessee

Area Profile

24,634 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Farragut, in Knox County.

79out of 100
Area Score
Top 3% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 7% of 3,904 published cities81
SchoolsTop 6% of 2,668 published cities86
GrowthTop 29% of 2,973 published cities62
Housing affordabilityTop 37% of 4,223 published cities88
ClimateTop 23% of 4,223 published cities77
Physical resilienceTop 32% of 4,182 published cities73
AccessTop 43% of 4,226 published cities94
Economic stabilityTop 18% of 4,226 published cities75
The quick read

Farragut ranks in the top 7% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 2.9% and median household income of $142,093.

Residential permitting has slowed: 98 units authorized over the past twelve months, 28% below the prior year.

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
24,634
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$142,093
Top 6% nationally
Density
1,542/sq mi
16.0 sq mi of land
Median age
45.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Knox County
Tennessee
Metro area
Knoxville, TN
Nearest major airport
TYS
11 mi · Mc Ghee Tyson
Median home value
$583,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 2.9% is lower than 97% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.3% over the past year, to 12,482 employed residents.

65% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 95% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 94% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$8,342$142,093Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,780$68,702Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate3.8%Bottom 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute23.9 minBottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher65.0%Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment12,482Bottom 8%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.6%Top 26%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.3%Bottom 39%June 2026
Labor force12,851Bottom 7%June 2026
Labor force participation62.9%Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$59,890Bottom 14%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$47,080Bottom 17%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.5%Bottom 17%June 2026
Unemployment rate2.9%Bottom 3%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2023/012023/072024/012024/072025/012025/072026/012026/063.32.1
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 2.9% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024142k119k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $142,093 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.

51% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 44% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
Math proficiency
50.6%
Top 12% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
43.6%
Top 16% in Tennessee
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Hardin Valley AcademyKnox County1,916
Hardin Valley Middle SchoolKnox County1,06148%35%
Hardin Valley ElementaryKnox County90754%54%

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 $1,966 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.1 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
16.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,966
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$583,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.11Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate84.7%Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3459,261Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$197$1,966Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$30,668$583,400Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.6%Bottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate1.2%Bottom 13%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
62/ 100
Top 29% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing — 2 consecutive years, measured from 2020 to 2025.

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.

Population has grown 7% since 2020, reaching 25,242 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 4.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
98
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.0
Top 36% nationally
Year over year
−28%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202425k24k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
2020202220232024202532484
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−61%).

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 87°F and January a low of 29°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 59.7 inches, including 4.4 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 48, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station OAK RIDGE ATDD, 9.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index64.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation59.7"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall4.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low29°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high87°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index48.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing40°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
48
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
64
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

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. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

73 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, lightning and ice storm.

LightningModerate
EarthquakeElevated
LandslideModerate
Winter weatherModerate
Ice stormModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, inland flooding, cold wave, strong wind, heat wave, hurricane, wildfire, hail, drought.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. 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.

Knox County records 2.6 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 15.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 45.9 per 100,000 residents in Knox County.

Homicide
2.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
45.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
19.4
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 Knox 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 Farragut rather than Farragut 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

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mc Ghee TysonTYS11 mi10,000 ft
Asheville RgnlAVL97 mi8,002 ft
Tri-CitiesTRI107 mi8,000 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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Other cities in Knoxville, TN

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
KnoxvilleKnox County195,18566vs Farragut
Oak RidgeAnderson County32,69370vs Farragut
MaryvilleBlount County32,39274vs Farragut
PowellKnox County13,739vs Farragut
AlcoaBlount County12,22270vs Farragut
Lenoir CityLoudon County11,11069vs Farragut
HallsKnox County10,272vs Farragut
ClintonAnderson County10,23967vs Farragut

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.

ZIP codes in Farragut

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3793428,272$132,26477
3793225,424$119,70378