37355Manchester, Tennessee

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 37355.

61out of 100
Area Score
Top 48% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3221st of 6,210 published ZIP areas54
Schools2924th of 4,422 published ZIP areas39
GrowthTop 43% of 5,428 published ZIP areas54
Housing affordabilityTop 36% of 6,685 published ZIP areas88
ClimateTop 29% of 6,789 published ZIP areas75
Physical resilience3479th of 6,709 published ZIP areas57
Access5616th of 6,791 published ZIP areas76
Economic stability4949th of 6,742 published ZIP areas46
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.7% and median household income $63,357, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Residential permitting has slowed: 64 units authorized over the past twelve months, 38% below the prior year.

Rent takes 18% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.0 times that income.

At a glance

Population
29,805
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$63,357
Bottom 36% nationally
Density
144/sq mi
207.0 sq mi of land
Median age
37.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Manchester
Tennessee
Metro area
Tullahoma-Manchester, TN
Nearest major airport
MQY
42 mi · Smyrna
Median home value
$255,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.7% is lower than 78% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.9% over the past year, to 25,949 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,312$63,357Bottom 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,411$31,628Bottom 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate16.4%Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute29.7 minTop 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher20.0%Bottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment25,949Bottom 27%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.0%Top 50%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 48%June 2026
Labor force26,959Bottom 26%June 2026
Labor force participation61.3%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.4%Bottom 27%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.7%Bottom 22%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202463k56k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $63,357 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 Manchester, TN, the city containing this ZIP code.

28% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 29% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
Math proficiency
28.2%
Bottom 36% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
28.8%
Bottom 42% in Tennessee
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Coffee County Central High SchoolCoffee County1,262
Coffee County Middle SchoolCoffee County78315%21%
College Street ElementaryManchester59840%30%
Westwood ElementaryManchester55838%28%
Westwood Middle SchoolManchester47227%32%
Coffee County Raider AcademyCoffee County409
North Coffee ElementaryCoffee County35425%22%
New Union ElementaryCoffee County29733%52%
Deerfield Elementary SchoolCoffee County29025%25%
East Coffee ElementaryCoffee County22423%31%
Coffee County Koss CenterCoffee County0

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 $955 takes 18% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.0 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
18.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$955
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$255,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.04Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate69.9%Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±50512,155Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$71$955Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,801$255,700Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.1%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.4%Bottom 35%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
54/ 100
Top 43% 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 4.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
64
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.9
Top 30% nationally
Year over year
−38%
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 Manchester, 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 59.3 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MANCHESTER #2, 0.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND6.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation59.3"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

57 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeElevated
TornadoElevated
DroughtModerate
Strong windModerate
LightningModerate

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

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.

Coffee 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 15.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 31.3 per 100,000 residents in Coffee County.

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
31.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
24.7
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 Coffee 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 37355 rather than 37355 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 42 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
SmyrnaMQY42 mi8,038 ft
Nashville IntlBNA54 mi11,030 ft
Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones FldHSV72 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)
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.

37355 vs Manchester

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

37355
Manchester
Median household income
$63,357
vs
$57,500
Per capita income
$31,628
vs
$30,122
Population density
144/sq mi
vs
844/sq mi
Median home value
$255,700
vs
$237,400
Median gross rent
$955
vs
$978
Homeownership rate
69.9%
vs
51.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
20.0%
vs
22.9%
Poverty rate
16.4%
vs
14.9%
Median age
37.7
vs
32.6

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.