Murfreesboro, TN population, income and ZIP codes

Murfreesboro city is a mid-size city in Tennessee, with 157,547 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #6 of 504 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 31.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Murfreesboro city earn a median of $76,241 a year, 2.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 36% above 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 10% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Murfreesboro city is valued at $365,100, 20.3% above the national figure and 91% above the $191,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,376 a month, 2.1% below the national figure, or roughly $16,512 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.7% 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 4.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 53.3% 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.