Gruetli-Laager, TN population, income and ZIP codes

Gruetli-Laager city is a small town in Tennessee, with 1,619 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #250 of 504 ranked by population — larger than 50% of them. The median age here is 42.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Gruetli-Laager city earn a median of $50,164 a year, 36.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 10% below the $55,988 median for the 307 Tennessee cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 12% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Gruetli-Laager city is valued at $147,900, 51.3% below the national figure and 23% below the $191,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,029 a month, 26.8% below the national figure, or roughly $12,348 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.6% 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 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 88.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. 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.