38451Lewisburg, Tennessee

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 38451.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 29% of 6,210 published ZIP areas65
Housing affordabilityTop 30% of 6,685 published ZIP areas91
ClimateTop 40% of 6,789 published ZIP areas72
Physical resilienceTop 44% of 6,709 published ZIP areas63
Access5767th of 6,791 published ZIP areas74
Economic stability3409th of 6,742 published ZIP areas59
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.3% and median household income $90,163, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Rent takes 15% 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 91°F and a typical January falls to 28°F, on thirty-year normals.

At a glance

Population
4,145
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$90,163
Top 27% nationally
Density
49/sq mi
84.1 sq mi of land
Median age
49.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Lewisburg
Tennessee
Metro area
Lewisburg, TN
Nearest major airport
MQY
46 mi · Smyrna
Median home value
$341,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.3% is lower than 56% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.3% over the past year, to 16,301 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$10,567$90,163Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,846$37,693Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.1%Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute33.9 minTop 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher23.3%Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment16,301Bottom 13%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.3%Top 12%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.3%Top 33%June 2026
Labor force17,040Bottom 13%June 2026
Labor force participation60.5%Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.5%Top 31%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.3%Bottom 44%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202490k63k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $90,163 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 Lewisburg, TN, the city containing this ZIP code.

Public schools
1
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
Math proficiency
2019-20 school year
Reading proficiency
2019-20 school year
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Culleoka Unit SchoolMaury County86827%21%

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 $1,099 takes 15% 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
14.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,099
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$341,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.79Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate93.9%Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2751,844Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$537$1,099Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$35,215$341,600Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income14.6%Bottom 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.8%Bottom 32%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 91°F and January a low of 28°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 56.1 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LEWISBURG EXP STN, 10.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation56.1"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low28°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing41°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

63 / 100
Physical resilience

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

TornadoModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Strong windModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, ice storm, inland flooding, winter weather, heat wave, lightning, landslide, hurricane, wildfire, drought, hail.

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.

Marshall County records 4.7 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 16.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 20.2 per 100,000 residents in Marshall County.

Homicide
4.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
20.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
17.3
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 Marshall 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 38451 rather than 38451 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 46 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
SmyrnaMQY46 mi8,038 ft
Nashville IntlBNA49 mi11,030 ft
Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones FldHSV58 mi10,001 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)
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
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.

38451 vs Lewisburg

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

38451
Lewisburg
Median household income
$90,163
vs
$48,341
Per capita income
$37,693
vs
$29,424
Population density
49/sq mi
vs
902/sq mi
Median home value
$341,600
vs
$225,700
Median gross rent
$1,099
vs
$872
Homeownership rate
93.9%
vs
59.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
23.3%
vs
17.3%
Poverty rate
8.1%
vs
19.9%
Median age
49.7
vs
35.7

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.