Roan Mountain, TN population, income and ZIP codes

Roan Mountain CDP is a very small community in Tennessee, with 976 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #311 of 504 ranked by population — larger than 38% of them. The median age here is 39.5 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 Roan Mountain CDP earn a median of $59,539 a year, 24.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 6% above 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 1.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Roan Mountain CDP is valued at $162,000, 46.6% below the national figure and 15% below the $191,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 90.4% 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. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 976 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Roan Mountain CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Roan Mountain 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.