37122Mount Juliet, Tennessee

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 37122.

76out of 100
Area Score
Top 5% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 4% of 6,210 published ZIP areas84
SchoolsTop 4% of 4,422 published ZIP areas89
GrowthTop 7% of 5,428 published ZIP areas77
Housing affordability3556th of 6,685 published ZIP areas78
ClimateTop 49% of 6,789 published ZIP areas71
Physical resilience3679th of 6,709 published ZIP areas53
AccessTop 47% of 6,791 published ZIP areas94
Economic stabilityTop 13% of 6,742 published ZIP areas79
The quick read

37122 ranks in the top 4% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 2.9% and median household income of $112,967.

Residential permitting has slowed: 433 units authorized over the past twelve months, 20% below the prior year.

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
68,492
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$112,967
Top 12% nationally
Density
614/sq mi
111.6 sq mi of land
Median age
40.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Mount Juliet
Tennessee
Metro area
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
Nearest major airport
BNA
11 mi · Nashville Intl
Median home value
$486,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 2.9% is lower than 97% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.6% over the past year, to 23,572 employed residents.

48% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 86% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 88% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$8,933$112,967Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$7,268$54,835Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.5%Bottom 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute34.4 minTop 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher47.5%Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment23,572Bottom 24%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.6%Top 11%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.6%Top 45%June 2026
Labor force24,282Bottom 24%June 2026
Labor force participation68.9%Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,390Bottom 43%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$50,390Bottom 49%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 30%June 2026
Unemployment rate2.9%Bottom 3%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024113k99k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $112,967 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

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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Mount Juliet, TN, the city containing this ZIP code.

57% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 45% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
13
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
Math proficiency
56.9%
Top 8% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
45.1%
Top 14% in Tennessee
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Mt. Juliet High SchoolWilson County1,712
Green Hill High SchoolWilson County1,606
West Wilson Middle SchoolWilson County1,38354%30%
Rutland ElementaryWilson County1,37159%52%
Stoner Creek ElementaryWilson County1,04360%49%
Mt. Juliet Middle SchoolWilson County1,00236%33%
Gladeville Middle SchoolWilson County99162%37%
West ElementaryWilson County84960%54%
Springdale Elementary SchoolWilson County73867%58%
Mt. Juliet ElementaryWilson County64859%52%
W A Wright ElementaryWilson County53864%53%
Elzie D Patton Elementary SchoolWilson County46152%40%

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 $1,993 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.3 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
21.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,993
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$486,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.31Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate79.6%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±66426,565Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$121$1,993Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,369$486,500Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.2%Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.7%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 →
Development Momentum
77/ 100
Top 7% 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.

At 10.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
433
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
10.3
Top 11% nationally
Year over year
−20%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
21.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Mount Juliet, TN, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 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 30°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 50.5 inches, including 4.7 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 41, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NASHVILLE INTL AP, 12.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index51.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation50.5"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall4.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low30°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index41.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing41°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
41
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
51
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
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

53 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeElevated
TornadoModerate
Inland floodingModerate
Ice stormModerate
HailModerate
LightningModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, winter weather, strong wind, heat wave, hurricane, wildfire, drought, landslide.

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.

Wilson County records 2.9 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 14.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 18.9 per 100,000 residents in Wilson County.

Homicide
2.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
18.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
17.7
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 Wilson 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 37122 rather than 37122 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

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Nashville IntlBNA11 mi11,030 ft
SmyrnaMQY12 mi8,038 ft
Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones FldHSV108 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
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)
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
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.

37122 vs Mount Juliet

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

37122
Mount Juliet
Median household income
$112,967
vs
$107,068
Per capita income
$54,835
vs
$55,220
Population density
614/sq mi
vs
1,606/sq mi
Median home value
$486,500
vs
$460,100
Median gross rent
$1,993
vs
$2,011
Homeownership rate
79.6%
vs
72.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher
47.5%
vs
49.5%
Poverty rate
4.5%
vs
6.0%
Median age
40.4
vs
39.3

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.