Best Places37714, TN Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 37714, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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37714 ranks 25,522nd of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state finances by a wide margin, and health outcomes rank lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in 37714

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 37714 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

37714's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%State finances
Top 5%Low property taxes
Top 10%Tree cover
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 37714 with other zip codes.

Where 37714 ranks high

  • State fiscal healthBetter than 96% of zip codes
  • Low property taxBetter than 96% of zip codes
  • Tree shadeBetter than 94% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$564 a month, better than 89% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 82% of zip codes

Where 37714 ranks low

  • Health outlookBetter than only 6% of zip codes
  • School gradeD, better than only 8% of zip codes
  • Educational attainmentBetter than only 14% of zip codes
  • QuietBetter than only 16% of zip codes
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 17% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 37714

A household needs to earn about $59,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 37714 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $64,934, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$59,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,383
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $242,762 home
Median rent
$958
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,238
Property tax$64
Homeowners insurance$81

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 37714's effective rate of 0.32%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 37714

37714 runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
46
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
25%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1820%
18 to 3417%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6419%
65 and older25%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 37714.


Who works in 37714, and how

Work in 37714 centers on construction and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
12%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.8%
below the national average
Job growth
−0.8%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Construction15%
Health care & social12%
Manufacturing11%
Retail trade10%
Education8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 87%
  • Work from home 12%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 1%

Life in 37714

37714 has more parkland per resident than 99% of zip codes. That concentrates in some parts of 37714 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Parkland
278 acres
about 63.9 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 99% of zip codes

What the weather is like in 37714, month by month

37714 sees roughly 79 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 29. The comfortable stretch runs April through June and August through October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January47°37°29°
April71°58°47°
July87°76°68°
October72°58°48°

Flying in and out of 37714

The nearest airport, McGhee Tyson, is about 35 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Nashville International, about 138 miles away.

Nearest airport
TYS
McGhee Tyson, about 35 miles
Airport size
Small hub
80th-busiest in the US, 67 nonstop destinations
Average drive
50 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 37714

Schools across 37714 average a D, better than 8% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 37714 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


37714 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 37714 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 37714

Is 37714 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 37714 ranks 25,522nd of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on state finances, low property taxes, and tree cover, and lowest on health outcomes and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 37714 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $242,762. The overall cost of living runs about 22% below the national average. Set against a $64,934 median income, cost of living beats 51% of zip codes.

Is 37714 safe?

37714 is safer than 54% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $396 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 37714. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 37714 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

37714 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 37714: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 37714: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 37714: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 37714: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

37714 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.