Hartsville/Trousdale County, Tennessee

Area Profile

11,957 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Hartsville/Trousdale County, in Trousdale County.

64out of 100
Area Score
Top 32% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
OpportunityTop 35% of 4,199 cities measured64
SchoolsTop 17% of 4,162 cities measured76
GrowthTop 18% of 4,224 cities measured67
Housing affordabilityTop 39% of 4,218 cities measured70
ClimateTop 29% of 4,225 cities measured75
Physical resilience2,825th of 4,226 cities measured42
Access3,352nd of 4,226 cities measured80
Economic stability3,581st of 4,226 cities measured35
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.0% and median household income $72,747, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Trousdale County, TN, which contains Hartsville/Trousdale County, rather than for Hartsville/Trousdale County alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 51% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 17% of published profiles for schools.

115 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, essentially level with the prior year — steady rather than turning. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Trousdale County, TN, which contains Hartsville/Trousdale County, rather than for Hartsville/Trousdale County alone.

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
11,957
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$72,747
Top 42% nationally
Density
105/sq mi
114.3 sq mi of land
Median age
35.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Tennessee
Nearest major airport
MQY
33 mi · Smyrna
Median home value
$337,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Trousdale County, TN, which contains Hartsville/Trousdale County, is 3.0%, lower than in 93% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Trousdale County, TN, which contains Hartsville/Trousdale County, fell 0.7% over the past year, to 5,570 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$8,7092024 ACS 5-Year$72,747Top 42%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,2292024 ACS 5-Year$29,345Bottom 35%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year11.8%Bottom 46%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±3.2 min2024 ACS 5-Year37.0 minBottom 12%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year14.3%Bottom 33%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year85.6%77th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentTrousdale County, TN’s figureJuly 20265,570Bottom 1%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Trousdale County, TN’s figureJuly 2026+0.3%Top 41%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Trousdale County, TN’s figureJuly 2026−0.7%Top 49%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceTrousdale County, TN’s figureJuly 20265,7431st percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year58.0%Bottom 10%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageNashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$66,390Bottom 39%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageNashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$50,390Bottom 45%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.1%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%73rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Trousdale County, TN’s figureJuly 2026−0.7%Top 19%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateTrousdale County, TN’s figureJuly 20263.0%Top 7%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year5.7%40th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202473k58k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $72,747 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 — Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand33,120$39,790
Fast Food and Counter Workers28,680$29,150
Retail Salespersons28,580$34,420
Registered Nurses25,100$84,040
General and Operations Managers23,820$119,990
Customer Service Representatives20,770$45,510

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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Trousdale County, TN, which contains this city.

51% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 42% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
—
Math proficiency
50.6%
Top 15% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
42.0%
Top 36% in Tennessee
All 5 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Trousdale Co ElementaryTrousdale County683—59%51%
Trousdale Co High SchoolTrousdale County402—32%47%
Jim Satterfield Middle SchoolTrousdale County326—57%37%
Bethpage ElementarySumner County254—52%37%
North Sumner ElementarySumner County212—47%17%

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 3% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 97.0, 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area is up 46% over five years, and up 1.6% 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 $1,166 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.35% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,412, some 66% above the $853 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,412 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $56,500 a year, about 78% of the median household income here of $72,747.

The typical renter household here spends 27% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $853 a month.

A median home at $337,600 costs 3.7 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $90,282, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
97.0

Prices here run about 3% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, 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
27.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.7×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,412
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$853
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$337,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Hartsville/Trousdale County’s median household income of $72,747, 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area’s figure202397.0Top 33%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+1.6%31st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+45.8%65th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+119.4%86th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.52024 ACS 5-Year3.7Bottom 21%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year74.5%47th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±442024 ACS 5-Year3,97486th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,277Top 43%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,800Top 34%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,412Top 36%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$812024 ACS 5-Year$853Top 36%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,8262024 ACS 5-Year$337,60076th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1272024 ACS 5-Year$1,16629th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$12,1912024 ACS 5-Year$90,282Top 36%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.04%2024 ACS 5-Year0.35%3rd percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year27.3%Top 44%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±332024 ACS 5-Year2172nd percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.5%57th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year6.4%47th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1472024 ACS 5-Year27482nd percentileof 32,3302024 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

67/ 100
Top 18% of 4,224 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.

Population has grown 5% since 2020, reaching 12,159 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 115 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Trousdale County, TN, which contains Hartsville/Trousdale County, rather than for Hartsville/Trousdale County alone.

At 9.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Trousdale County, TN, which contains Hartsville/Trousdale County, rather than for Hartsville/Trousdale County alone.

Units permitted
115
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
9.6
Top 13% nationally
Year over year
0%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202412k12k
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. It has been falling, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Hartsville/Trousdale County, TN is not one. This is the figure for Trousdale County, TN, which contains this city.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 27°F.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station HARTSVILLE, 1.8 miles from this location.

Precipitation

MetricValueSource period
Average January low1991-2020 Normals27°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals40°F1991-2020 Normals

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

Physical risk

42 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and cold wave, with inland flooding alone responsible for 46% of it. Cold wave is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

EarthquakeModerate
TornadoModerate
Strong windModerate
Winter weatherModerate
HailModerate
LightningModerate
Inland floodingElevated

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

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 offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Trousdale County has a modeled homicide rate of about 5.5 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at about 15.3 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Homicide
5.5
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.3
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
17.5
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured

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 Hartsville/Trousdale County (Trousdale County) rather than Hartsville/Trousdale County 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. Either no municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — or its department did not report every month of the year. Either way there is no figure to show. 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

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Smyrna at 33 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year89.7%Top 50%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle33 miBottom 24%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle2Bottom 8%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year9.9%Bottom 38%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
SmyrnaMQY33 mi8,038 ft
Nashville IntlBNA34 mi11,030 ft
Owensboro/Daviess County RgnlOWB108 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Nashville-DavidsonDavidson County690,13058Nashville-Davidson vs Hartsville/Trousdale County
MurfreesboroRutherford County161,44572Murfreesboro vs Hartsville/Trousdale County
FranklinWilliamson County87,13378Franklin vs Hartsville/Trousdale County
HendersonvilleSumner County63,09169
SmyrnaRutherford County56,69271
Spring HillMaury County55,76578
GallatinSumner County48,53267
BrentwoodWilliamson County45,55673
ColumbiaMaury County45,44155
LebanonWilson County44,78868
Mount JulietWilson County42,07374
La VergneRutherford County40,24365

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.

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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)
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
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
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
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.

ZIP codes in Hartsville/Trousdale County

4 ZIP areas

Every ZIP area in Hartsville/Trousdale County with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Hartsville/Trousdale County closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
3707410,932$71,914$329,600—
370225,728$79,375$287,90066
370313,926$98,114$352,60063
370571,016$78,940$224,200—