ZIP 36545

What ZIP 36545 actually tells you, and what it doesn't

The 36545 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has a population of 8,818 and a median household income of $52,027. Against the other tabulation areas in this dataset, it places as follows.

A home at the median costs roughly 2.6 years of median household income, a little below the midpoint of the 29,491 tabulation areas reporting both. Buying is within reach of a typical local income here in a way it is not across most of the country.

At the median, rent consumes roughly 15% of a median household's income -- below the midpoint for reporting areas, and well under the 30% line commonly used to define a cost burden.

The median age of 44.0 sits above the midpoint of reporting areas, the pattern of a settled population where more residents are past child-rearing than entering it.

ZCTAs approximate USPS ZIP codes rather than matching them, and these are 5-year ACS estimates, so they trail current conditions.