Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government, TN population, income and ZIP codes

Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) is a major city in Tennessee, with 684,298 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it first of 504 ranked by population. The median age here is 34.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) earn a median of $75,197 a year, 4.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 34% above 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 14.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) is valued at $383,100, 26.3% above the national figure and 100% above the $191,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,486 a month, 5.7% above the national figure, or roughly $17,832 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.7% 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 5.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 53% 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.

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.