Millington, Tennessee

Area Profile

11,289 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Millington, in Shelby County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity3750th of 3,904 published cities26
Schools2664th of 2,668 published cities3
Housing affordability2968th of 4,223 published cities67
Climate2515th of 4,223 published cities68
Physical resilience2458th of 4,182 published cities49
AccessTop 19% of 4,226 published cities98
Economic stability3463rd of 4,226 published cities40
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 5.1% and the Opportunity signal places Millington in the bottom 4%.

Rent takes 27% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.1 times that income.

A major airport is 2 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
11,289
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$49,979
Bottom 23% nationally
Density
504/sq mi
22.4 sq mi of land
Median age
37.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Shelby County
Tennessee
Metro area
Memphis, TN-MS-AR
Nearest major airport
NQA
2 mi · Millington/Memphis
Median home value
$207,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.1% is lower than 22% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.8% over the past year, to 403,507 employed residents.

Median household income of $49,979 is below 77% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$9,940$49,979Bottom 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,027$30,471Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate16.5%Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute22.5 minBottom 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher18.8%Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment403,507Top 18%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.7%Bottom 23%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.8%Bottom 23%June 2026
Labor force425,128Top 18%June 2026
Labor force participation59.3%Bottom 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$60,240Bottom 15%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,890Bottom 15%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.0%Bottom 45%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.1%Top 22%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202452k49k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $49,979 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 — Memphis, TN-MS-AR
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand37,750$39,510
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers19,460$63,070
Retail Salespersons17,050$32,580
Fast Food and Counter Workers15,320$27,490
Registered Nurses13,760$81,500
Stockers and Order Fillers12,200$37,280

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 Shelby County, TN, which contains this city.

13% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 17% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
Math proficiency
13.3%
Bottom 3% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
17.3%
Bottom 3% in Tennessee
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Millington Central Middle High SchoolMillington Municipal Schools1,193
Millington Primary SchoolMillington Municipal Schools85712%20%
Millington Intermediate SchoolMillington Municipal Schools537
E.E. Jeter Elementary/MiddleMemphis-Shelby County Schools35627%27%
Lucy ElementaryMemphis-Shelby County Schools3015%5%
Woodstock Middle SchoolMemphis-Shelby County Schools2488%8%

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 $1,111 takes 27% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.1 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
26.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,111
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$207,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.15Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate57.8%Bottom 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4215,190Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$132$1,111Top 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$52,081$207,300Top 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income26.7%Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate10.6%Top 48%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 →

Population has grown 9% since 2020, reaching 11,486 in 2024.

Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202412k11k
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.

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

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 92°F and January a low of 33°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 54.9 inches, including 2.7 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 55, in the Moderate band, and about 9 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MEMPHIS INTL AP, 19.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index74.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation54.9"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall2.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low33°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10092024 calendar year
Median air quality index55.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing41°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
55
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
74
90th percentile index
Days above 100
9
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

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. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

49 / 100
Physical resilience

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

TornadoElevated
EarthquakeElevated
LandslideModerate

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

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.

Shelby County records 23.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 31.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 30.3 per 100,000 residents in Shelby County.

Homicide
23.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
31.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
30.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.0
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 Shelby 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 Millington rather than Millington 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

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 2 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Millington/MemphisNQA2 mi8,001 ft
Frederick W Smith Intl/MemphisMEM21 mi11,120 ft
Arkansas IntlBYH44 mi11,602 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 Memphis, TN-MS-AR

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
MemphisShelby County618,980vs Millington
BartlettShelby County56,87660vs Millington
SouthavenDeSoto County56,22661vs Millington
ColliervilleShelby County51,51572vs Millington
Olive BranchDeSoto County47,01970vs Millington
GermantownShelby County40,673vs Millington
Horn LakeDeSoto County26,64752vs Millington
West MemphisCrittenden County23,92951vs Millington
HernandoDeSoto County17,94969vs Millington
ArlingtonShelby County15,205vs Millington
LakelandShelby County14,192vs Millington
MarionCrittenden County13,62360vs Millington

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
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
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
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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 Millington

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3805325,303$58,194