What is the population of Linden town?

Linden town has 1,385 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #265 of 504 in Tennessee.

What is the median household income in Linden town?

Median household income in Linden town is $57,212 a year, 27.2% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Linden town?

Median gross rent is $689 a month and the median home value is $80,000, so rent absorbs about 14.5% of median household income.

Is Linden town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Linden town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Linden, TN population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Linden, Tennessee (Linden, TN — Census place “Linden town”) is 1,385 residents, ranking #265 of 504 places in Tennessee. Median household income is $57,212, the median home is worth $80,000 and median gross rent runs $689 a month. Looking for the Linden Tennessee ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Linden, TN: 37096.

Population: 1,385Linden town residents
Median household income: $57,212Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $80,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $689Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 48 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 61.4%Owner-occupied households

Linden ZIP codes (Tennessee)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Linden.

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

37096

What the numbers mean in Linden town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Linden town median would spend about 14.5% 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 1.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 15.7% of residents and 61.4% of households own their home.

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

Linden town, TN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Linden town is a small town in Tennessee, with 1,385 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #265 of 504 ranked by population — larger than 47% of them. The median age here is 48 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Linden town earn a median of $57,212 a year, 27.2% 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. 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 15.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Linden town is valued at $80,000, 73.6% below the national figure and 58% below the $191,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $689 a month, 51% below the national figure, or roughly $8,268 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.5% 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 1.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 61.4% 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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

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What is the population of Linden town?: Linden town has 1,385 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #265 of 504 in Tennessee.
What is the median household income in Linden town?: Median household income in Linden town is $57,212 a year, 27.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Linden town?: Median gross rent is $689 a month and the median home value is $80,000, so rent absorbs about 14.5% of median household income.
Is Linden town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Linden town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Linden town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.