State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Tennessee
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,189 ± $7 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 48.8% ± 0.5 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 23.3% ± 0.5 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $47,560. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | $1,189 ± $7 | 48.8% | 23.3% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Tennessee
- Anderson County$1,031 median gross rent · 44.7% rent burden
- Bedford County$1,051 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
- Benton County$768 median gross rent · 39.1% rent burden
- Bledsoe County$830 median gross rent · 38.1% rent burden
- Blount County$1,090 median gross rent · 40.1% rent burden
- Bradley County$1,030 median gross rent · 45.4% rent burden
- Campbell County$716 median gross rent · 40.7% rent burden
- Cannon County$908 median gross rent · 40% rent burden
- Carroll County$755 median gross rent · 43.4% rent burden
- Carter County$739 median gross rent · 36.5% rent burden
- Cheatham County$1,345 median gross rent · 49.3% rent burden
- Chester County$756 median gross rent · 38.3% rent burden
- Claiborne County$745 median gross rent · 42.5% rent burden
- Clay County$557 median gross rent · 33.2% rent burden
- Cocke County$798 median gross rent · 47.5% rent burden
- Coffee County$913 median gross rent · 39% rent burden
- Crockett County$857 median gross rent · 41.9% rent burden
- Cumberland County$839 median gross rent · 34.7% rent burden
- Davidson County$1,582 median gross rent · 53.8% rent burden
- Decatur County$757 median gross rent · 26.4% rent burden
- DeKalb County$839 median gross rent · 60.7% rent burden
- Dickson County$1,015 median gross rent · 32.7% rent burden
- Dyer County$782 median gross rent · 41.9% rent burden
- Fayette County$902 median gross rent · 45.5% rent burden
- Fentress County$709 median gross rent · 44% rent burden
- Franklin County$894 median gross rent · 40.4% rent burden
- Gibson County$819 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- Giles County$862 median gross rent · 37% rent burden
- Grainger County$746 median gross rent · 44.2% rent burden
- Greene County$737 median gross rent · 42.1% rent burden
- Grundy County$636 median gross rent · 39% rent burden
- Hamblen County$857 median gross rent · 44.7% rent burden
- Hamilton County$1,253 median gross rent · 45.2% rent burden
- Hancock County$622 median gross rent · 58% rent burden
- Hardeman County$812 median gross rent · 54.5% rent burden
- Hardin County$775 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- Hawkins County$785 median gross rent · 37.9% rent burden
- Haywood County$762 median gross rent · 54.2% rent burden
- Henderson County$745 median gross rent · 41.3% rent burden
- Henry County$761 median gross rent · 36.9% rent burden
- Hickman County$893 median gross rent · 38.4% rent burden
- Houston County$735 median gross rent · 23% rent burden
- Humphreys County$862 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Jackson County$758 median gross rent · 42% rent burden
- Jefferson County$904 median gross rent · 40.7% rent burden
- Johnson County$674 median gross rent · 36.9% rent burden
- Knox County$1,261 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
- Lake County$532 median gross rent · 43.2% rent burden
- Lauderdale County$774 median gross rent · 49.7% rent burden
- Lawrence County$763 median gross rent · 47.3% rent burden
- Lewis County$708 median gross rent · 38.9% rent burden
- Lincoln County$857 median gross rent · 41.1% rent burden
- Loudon County$1,062 median gross rent · 43.4% rent burden
- Macon County$846 median gross rent · 41.8% rent burden
- Madison County$1,123 median gross rent · 54.2% rent burden
- Marion County$853 median gross rent · 41.4% rent burden
- Marshall County$946 median gross rent · 39.8% rent burden
- Maury County$1,300 median gross rent · 46.2% rent burden
- McMinn County$803 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- McNairy County$723 median gross rent · 26.6% rent burden
- Meigs County$875 median gross rent · 36.4% rent burden
- Monroe County$714 median gross rent · 52% rent burden
- Montgomery County$1,308 median gross rent · 46.3% rent burden
- Moore County$841 median gross rent · 24.6% rent burden
- Morgan County$770 median gross rent · 44.3% rent burden
- Obion County$770 median gross rent · 39.1% rent burden
- Overton County$832 median gross rent · 45.6% rent burden
- Perry County$758 median gross rent · 40.7% rent burden
- Pickett County$564 median gross rent · 23% rent burden
- Polk County$676 median gross rent · 49.2% rent burden
- Putnam County$908 median gross rent · 49.1% rent burden
- Rhea County$839 median gross rent · 41.5% rent burden
- Roane County$785 median gross rent · 40.8% rent burden
- Robertson County$1,199 median gross rent · 47.9% rent burden
- Rutherford County$1,502 median gross rent · 52% rent burden
- Scott County$686 median gross rent · 47.5% rent burden
- Sequatchie County$818 median gross rent · 56% rent burden
- Sevier County$1,072 median gross rent · 40.5% rent burden
- Shelby County$1,232 median gross rent · 54.2% rent burden
- Smith County$922 median gross rent · 36.9% rent burden
- Stewart County$945 median gross rent · 32.2% rent burden
- Sullivan County$889 median gross rent · 43.9% rent burden
- Sumner County$1,424 median gross rent · 48.8% rent burden
- Tipton County$1,013 median gross rent · 37.6% rent burden
- Trousdale County$853 median gross rent · 43.9% rent burden
- Unicoi County$750 median gross rent · 49.3% rent burden
- Union County$847 median gross rent · 52.7% rent burden
- Warren County$827 median gross rent · 44.9% rent burden
- Washington County$1,005 median gross rent · 48.6% rent burden
- Wayne County$619 median gross rent · 46.5% rent burden
- Weakley County$803 median gross rent · 42.6% rent burden
- White County$849 median gross rent · 33.8% rent burden
- Williamson County$1,969 median gross rent · 48.8% rent burden
- Wilson County$1,486 median gross rent · 48.5% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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