Fayetteville, TN population, income and ZIP codes

Fayetteville city is a mid-size town in Tennessee, with 7,037 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #88 of 504 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 36 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 Fayetteville city earn a median of $50,890 a year, 35.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 9% below 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 16.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fayetteville city is valued at $191,100, 37% below the national figure and within a couple of points of the $191,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $753 a month, 46.4% below the national figure, or roughly $9,036 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 55% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.