What is the population of Brownsville city?

Brownsville city has 9,634 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #67 of 504 in Tennessee.

What is the median household income in Brownsville city?

Median household income in Brownsville city is $39,488 a year, 49.7% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Brownsville city?

Median gross rent is $737 a month and the median home value is $119,700, so rent absorbs about 22.4% of median household income.

Is Brownsville city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Brownsville city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Brownsville, TN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Brownsville, Tennessee (Brownsville, TN — Census place “Brownsville city”) is 9,634 residents, ranking #67 of 504 places in Tennessee. Median household income is $39,488, the median home is worth $119,700 and median gross rent runs $737 a month. Looking for the Brownsville Tennessee ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Brownsville, TN: 38012.

Population: 9,634Brownsville city residents
Median household income: $39,488Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $119,700Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $737Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 43.2%Owner-occupied households

Brownsville ZIP codes (Tennessee)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Brownsville.

The Brownsville TN ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

38012

What the numbers mean in Brownsville city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Brownsville city median would spend about 22.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 3.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 27.5% of residents and 43.2% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Brownsville city, TN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Brownsville city is a mid-size town in Tennessee, with 9,634 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #67 of 504 ranked by population — larger than 86% of them. The median age here is 41.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Brownsville city earn a median of $39,488 a year, 49.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 29% below the $55,988 median for the 307 Tennessee cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 27.5% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Brownsville city is valued at $119,700, 60.5% below the national figure and 37% below the $191,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $737 a month, 47.6% below the national figure, or roughly $8,844 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 43.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Brownsville city?: Brownsville city has 9,634 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #67 of 504 in Tennessee.
What is the median household income in Brownsville city?: Median household income in Brownsville city is $39,488 a year, 49.7% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Brownsville city?: Median gross rent is $737 a month and the median home value is $119,700, so rent absorbs about 22.4% of median household income.
Is Brownsville city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Brownsville city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Brownsville city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.