Halls, Tennessee

Area Profile

10,272 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Halls, in Knox County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 15% of 3,904 published cities74
Schools1744th of 2,668 published cities40
Housing affordabilityTop 22% of 4,223 published cities94
ClimateTop 25% of 4,223 published cities76
Physical resilienceTop 32% of 4,182 published cities73
Access2228th of 4,226 published cities91
Economic stability2235th of 4,226 published cities59
The quick read

Halls ranks in the top 15% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.3% and median household income of $90,933.

Rent takes 16% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.5 times that income.

A major airport is 19 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
10,272
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$90,933
Top 24% nationally
Density
1,164/sq mi
8.8 sq mi of land
Median age
51.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Knox County
Tennessee
Metro area
Knoxville, TN
Nearest major airport
TYS
19 mi · Mc Ghee Tyson
Median home value
$321,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.3% is lower than 89% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.3% over the past year, to 253,182 employed residents.

36% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 77% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$14,341$90,933Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,805$44,248Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.0%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute28.1 minTop 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher35.7%Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment253,182Top 25%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.0%Top 14%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.3%Bottom 39%June 2026
Labor force261,843Top 26%June 2026
Labor force participation57.5%Bottom 40%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)-0.2%Bottom 35%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.3%Bottom 11%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202491k69k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $90,933 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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Knox County, TN, which contains this city.

34% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 29% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
Math proficiency
34.0%
Bottom 47% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
28.7%
Bottom 31% in Tennessee
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Halls High SchoolKnox County1,236
Halls Middle SchoolKnox County94527%25%
Halls ElementaryKnox County70543%34%

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 $1,178 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.5 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
15.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,178
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$321,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.53Top 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate86.7%Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4164,564Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$229$1,178Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$21,347$321,300Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income15.5%Bottom 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.0%Bottom 19%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 →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

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, 17.4 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

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 Halls rather than Halls 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 19 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mc Ghee TysonTYS19 mi10,000 ft
Tri-CitiesTRI89 mi8,000 ft
Asheville RgnlAVL90 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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Other cities in Knoxville, TN

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
KnoxvilleKnox County195,18566vs Halls
Oak RidgeAnderson County32,69370vs Halls
MaryvilleBlount County32,39274vs Halls
FarragutKnox County24,63479vs Halls
PowellKnox County13,739vs Halls
AlcoaBlount County12,22270vs Halls
Lenoir CityLoudon County11,11069vs Halls
ClintonAnderson County10,23967vs Halls

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
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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.

ZIP codes in Halls

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3793817,437$84,135