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How Collierville's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Collierville?
Your $100,000 in Collierville has the same purchasing power as $112,676 in the average US city. You'd need $12,676 less here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
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Within 10 points of Collierville's cost index of 89, sorted by closest match.
So why do people move to Collierville? The honest answer involves a few specific things the data backs up — most clearly cheaper than the national average, with no fine print and no state income tax, plus 4 more things worth knowing. The detail on each one is below.
The composite cost-of-living index lands at 89, a comfortable 11% under the US norm. It shows up most clearly in housing, which is where the gap to coastal metros usually opens up. Median rent in town runs about $1,488/mo against a typical household income of $129,729, which is the kind of ratio that leaves room to save.
Tennessee is one of the handful of US states with no state income tax on wages, so the only income-tax bite on a paycheck in Collierville is federal. For a household earning $100k, that's a tangible four-figure difference every year compared to a comparable salary in California or New York.
Collierville's typical household earns $129,729, which puts it in the top tier of US cities for household income. The bottom of the wage distribution isn't necessarily different from anywhere else, but the median and above sit meaningfully higher.
Unemployment in Collierville is running about 2.6% — below the typical US baseline of around 4%. That usually translates to a job market where employers compete for workers more than the other way around, which is the better side of that equation to be on if you're the one moving.
The reported crime rate in Collierville runs about 1,343 per 100,000 residents — meaningfully below the national norm. People who care about safety as a baseline rather than a feature tend to land in cities with numbers like these.
Collierville has a college-educated share of about 60% among adults 25+, which is higher than the national norm. It shows up in the local job mix, in the school district's reputation, and in the kind of conversations you have at the coffee shop.
Reasons are pulled from Collierville's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Not really a snow town. With winters averaging 35°F, Collierville sits in the mild-cold band where snowflakes appear occasionally and everything melts within a day. Most years see one storm worth talking about.
Cool, not cold. Winters in Collierville sit around 35°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Collierville's summer averages around 91°F with daily highs that routinely break 100°F. The trick to summer here is starting the day at sunrise and staying inside through the worst of it.
Approximately USDA Hardiness Zone 9. That's the band gardeners use to pick plants — anything rated for Zone 9 or colder should survive a typical winter in Collierville. (The estimate is derived from our winter-temperature data; the official USDA map uses station-level annual minimums and may differ by half a zone.)
Around 364 feet (111 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Collierville's altitude shows up in daily life.
The headline number is reassuring. Collierville's reported incident rate of about 1,343 per 100,000 is comfortably below the US norm of around 3,500 per 100k. Specific neighborhoods always vary, but the broader picture is on the safer side.
Collierville is a genuinely affordable city by US standards. The composite index sits at 89 versus the 100 national baseline — about 11% cheaper overall, with housing doing most of the heavy lifting.
Collierville scores 33 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Some neighborhoods buck the citywide average; the dense inner cores are usually noticeably more walkable than the city number suggests.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $62,125 to live in Collierville the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Collierville runs about $1,488/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.