East Ridge, TN population, income and ZIP codes

East Ridge city is a mid-size town in Tennessee, with 22,034 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #31 of 504 ranked by population — larger than 94% of them. The median age here is 36.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 East Ridge city earn a median of $55,988 a year, 28.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $55,988 median for the 307 Tennessee cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 14.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in East Ridge city is valued at $182,500, 39.8% below the national figure and 5% below the $191,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,112 a month, 20.9% below the national figure, or roughly $13,344 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.8% 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 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 57.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.