ZIP code 37902

ZIP 37902 is a small town in Knox County, Tennessee, with 2,308 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #427 of 638 ranked by population — larger than 33% of them. The median age here is 35.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 ZIP 37902 earn a median of $56,397 a year, 28.2% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 21.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 37902 is valued at $570,700, 88.1% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,322 a month, 6% below the national figure, or roughly $15,864 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 28.1% 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 10.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 19.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Home values sit at 10.1× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere.

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.

ZIP 37902 is tabulated inside Knox County, Tennessee, one of 23 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 638 across Tennessee. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 37902 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 37902 reports a median household income of $56,397, 16% below the $66,993 county median, and 5% below the $59,143 typical TN ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $570,700, 128% above the county figure and 193% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,322 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 37902 carries 9.25% at the register, assembled from the Knoxville jurisdiction stack: the Tennessee state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 37902 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 37902 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.