
Tennessee · FIPS 47021
Cheatham ZIP codes — Cheatham County, Tennessee
Quick answer
Cheatham County is home to 41,500 residents with a median household income of $82,015 and a median home value of $291,400. 81.9% of households own their home and 8.1% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Cheatham ZIP code? 4 ZIP code areas fall inside Cheatham County, Tennessee, listed in full below.
- Population
- 41,500Cheatham County residents
- Median household income
- $82,015Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $291,400Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $1,274Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 41.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 81.9%Owner-occupied households
Cheatham County, TN in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Cheatham County is a small city in Tennessee, with 41,500 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 41.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.
Households in Cheatham County earn a median of $82,015 a year, 4.4% above the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 8.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Cheatham County is valued at $291,400, 4% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,274 a month, 9.4% below the national figure, or roughly $15,288 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.6% 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 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 81.9% 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.
Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.
ZIP codes in Cheatham County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Cheatham County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Tennessee
Largest Census places in Tennessee by population.
- Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) 684,298
- Memphis city 629,063
- Knoxville city 193,721
- Chattanooga city 182,832
- Clarksville city 171,897
- Murfreesboro city 157,547
- Franklin city 85,575
- Johnson City city 71,455
- Jackson city 68,098
- Hendersonville city 62,390
- Bartlett city 56,998
- Kingsport city 55,807
Nearby counties
Other counties in Tennessee.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Cheatham County?
- Cheatham County has 41,500 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Cheatham County?
- Median household income in Cheatham County is $82,015 a year, 4.4% above the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Cheatham County?
- Median gross rent is $1,274 a month and the median home value is $291,400, so rent absorbs about 18.6% of median household income.
- Is Cheatham County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 3.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Cheatham County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Cheatham County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.