37865Seymour, Tennessee

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 37865.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 22% of 6,210 published ZIP areas69
SchoolsTop 41% of 4,422 published ZIP areas58
Housing affordabilityTop 25% of 6,685 published ZIP areas93
ClimateTop 23% of 6,789 published ZIP areas77
Physical resilience3966th of 6,709 published ZIP areas49
AccessTop 46% of 6,791 published ZIP areas94
Economic stabilityTop 42% of 6,742 published ZIP areas64
The quick read

37865 ranks in the top 22% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.0% and median household income of $88,231.

Rent takes 18% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.5 times that income.

A major airport is 15 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
25,074
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$88,231
Top 28% nationally
Density
342/sq mi
73.3 sq mi of land
Median age
42.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Seymour
Tennessee
Metro area
Sevierville, TN
Nearest major airport
TYS
15 mi · Mc Ghee Tyson
Median home value
$312,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.0% is lower than 96% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.6% over the past year, to 52,513 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$7,402$88,231Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,660$43,259Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.9%Bottom 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute31.8 minTop 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher24.7%Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment52,513Bottom 49%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.9%Top 25%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.6%Bottom 33%June 2026
Labor force54,163Bottom 49%June 2026
Labor force participation64.6%Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.2%Bottom 36%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.0%Bottom 4%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202488k70k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $88,231 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 Seymour, TN, the city containing this ZIP code.

40% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 30% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
Math proficiency
40.1%
Top 36% in Tennessee
Reading proficiency
30.3%
Top 50% in Tennessee
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Seymour Junior HighSevier County71352%27%
Seymour PrimarySevier County69732%37%
Seymour High SchoolSevier County693
Seymour IntermediateSevier County53129%25%
Prospect Elementary SchoolBlount County32349%32%

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 $1,351 takes 18% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.5 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
18.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,351
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$312,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.54Top 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate82.5%Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±64510,341Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$363$1,351Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$20,909$312,600Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.4%Top 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.3%Bottom 30%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 88°F and January a low of 30°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 51.9 inches, including 4.6 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 44, 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 KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AP, 14.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation51.9"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall4.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low30°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index44.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing39°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
44
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
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

49 / 100
Physical resilience

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

LandslideModerate
EarthquakeHigh
LightningModerate
Inland floodingModerate
Winter weatherModerate
TornadoModerate

Low or minimal exposure: wildfire, cold wave, ice storm, strong wind, hurricane, hail, heat wave, drought.

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.

Sevier County records 3.3 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 12.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 25.1 per 100,000 residents in Sevier County.

Homicide
3.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
25.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
12.1
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 Sevier 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 37865 rather than 37865 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 15 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mc Ghee TysonTYS15 mi10,000 ft
Asheville RgnlAVL73 mi8,002 ft
Tri-CitiesTRI86 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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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
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.

37865 vs Seymour

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

37865
Seymour
Median household income
$88,231
vs
$82,855
Per capita income
$43,259
vs
$41,886
Population density
342/sq mi
vs
1,012/sq mi
Median home value
$312,600
vs
$308,100
Median gross rent
$1,351
vs
$1,515
Homeownership rate
82.5%
vs
77.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.7%
vs
23.9%
Poverty rate
8.9%
vs
8.3%
Median age
42.2
vs
42.2

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.