37745Greeneville, Tennessee

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 37745.

58out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 42% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5690th of 6,210 published ZIP areas30
Schools2838th of 4,422 published ZIP areas40
Growth2884th of 5,428 published ZIP areas49
Housing affordabilityTop 29% of 6,685 published ZIP areas92
ClimateTop 29% of 6,789 published ZIP areas75
Physical resilienceTop 33% of 6,709 published ZIP areas72
Access4753rd of 6,791 published ZIP areas86
Economic stability5776th of 6,742 published ZIP areas36
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.0% and the Opportunity signal places 37745 in the bottom 8%.

Residential permitting has slowed: 81 units authorized over the past twelve months, 50% below the prior year.

Rent takes 14% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.7 times that income.

At a glance

Population
21,090
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$57,159
Bottom 25% nationally
Density
173/sq mi
121.9 sq mi of land
Median age
43.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Greeneville
Tennessee
Metro area
Greeneville, TN
Nearest major airport
TRI
27 mi · Tri-Cities
Median home value
$214,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.0% is lower than 28% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 2.0% over the past year, to 27,170 employed residents.

Median household income of $57,159 is below 75% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,451$57,159Bottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,729$32,696Bottom 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.7%Top 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute23.7 minBottom 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher24.7%Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment27,170Bottom 28%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.0%Bottom 32%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.0%Bottom 18%June 2026
Labor force28,611Bottom 28%June 2026
Labor force participation52.3%Bottom 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 31%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.0%Top 28%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202457k50k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $57,159 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.

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

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 25% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
Math proficiency
32.5%
Bottom 46% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
25.2%
Bottom 34% in Tennessee
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Greeneville High SchoolGreeneville871
Doak ElementaryGreene County57032%17%
Tusculum View ElementaryGreeneville41334%34%
Eastview ElementaryGreeneville39234%37%
Baileyton ElementaryGreene County38138%28%
South Greene Middle SchoolGreene County30042%17%
North Greene High SchoolGreene County294
North Greene Middle SchoolGreene County26222%22%
Highland ElementaryGreeneville14712%17%
The Children's Center - Holston U. M. Home For ChildrenGreene County21
Small Miracles - Holston U. M. Home For ChildrenGreene County18

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 $689 takes 14% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.7 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
14.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$689
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$214,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.75Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.2%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±6129,466Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$78$689Bottom 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$12,095$214,300Bottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income14.5%Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate12.5%Top 45%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
49/ 100
Ranks 2884 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 5.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
81
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
5.2
Top 29% nationally
Year over year
−50%
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 Greeneville, 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 86°F and January a low of 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 44.0 inches, including 9.2 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 BRISTOL TRI CITY AP, 27.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation44.0"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall9.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high86°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing39°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

72 / 100
Physical resilience

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

LandslideModerate
LightningModerate
EarthquakeElevated
Cold waveModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, inland flooding, tornado, ice storm, hail, hurricane, wildfire, winter weather, heat wave.

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.

Greene County records 0.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 17.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 34.4 per 100,000 residents in Greene County.

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
17.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
34.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
19.3
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 Greene 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 37745 rather than 37745 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 27 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tri-CitiesTRI27 mi8,000 ft
Asheville RgnlAVL60 mi8,002 ft
Mc Ghee TysonTYS72 mi10,000 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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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
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.

37745 vs Greeneville

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

37745
Greeneville
Median household income
$57,159
vs
$49,889
Per capita income
$32,696
vs
$32,186
Population density
173/sq mi
vs
921/sq mi
Median home value
$214,300
vs
$227,400
Median gross rent
$689
vs
$650
Homeownership rate
74.2%
vs
63.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.7%
vs
26.8%
Poverty rate
12.7%
vs
18.5%
Median age
43.0
vs
42.2

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.