Pelham, TN population, income and ZIP codes

Pelham CDP is a very small community in Tennessee, with 429 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #400 of 504 ranked by population — larger than 20% of them. The median age here is 32.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this 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 Pelham CDP earn a median of $66,667 a year, 15.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 19% 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 3.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Pelham CDP is valued at $157,100, 48.2% below the national figure and 18% below the $191,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, 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. 75.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 429 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Pelham CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Pelham CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.