South · Tennessee · pop 620K
Memphis, TN
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in TN, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,412 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,003 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $2,029 left over.
Expect summer highs near 92°F, winter lows around 33°F, and about 218 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($175,000) is about 3.4× the median household income.
Tradeoff: reported crime rates are higher than most cities here, so research specific neighborhoods before deciding.
The Memphis fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,383/mo
Typical rent
$1,180/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.4×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,060/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,180/mo
- Median home value
- $175,000
- Median household income
- $51,000
- Population
- 620,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.6%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.5%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 2,400
- Property crime rate
- 6,100
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 92°F
- Avg. winter low
- 33°F
- Sunny days / year
- 218
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈25/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈85/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈10/yr
- Annual rain
- 54"
- Annual snow
- 3"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+25
- Int'l airport
- ≈11 mi
- Walkability
- 35/100
- Disaster risk
- 66/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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