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How Smyrna's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Smyrna?
Your $100,000 in Smyrna has the same purchasing power as $102,627 in the average US city. You'd need $2,627 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 Smyrna's cost index of 97, sorted by closest match.
So why do people move to Smyrna? The honest answer involves a few specific things the data backs up — most clearly no state income tax and paychecks come in above the us average, plus 1 more things worth knowing. The detail on each one is below.
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 Smyrna 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.
The typical household in Smyrna pulls in $76,115 — comfortably above the US median. Combined with the cost of living here, the income-to-expense ratio works out better than a quick look at either number in isolation would suggest.
Reported crime in Smyrna comes in around 2,191 per 100,000 — under the national baseline of about 3,500. Worth digging into specific neighborhoods before settling on one, but the city-level picture is on the safer side.
Reasons are pulled from Smyrna'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, Smyrna 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 Smyrna sit around 35°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Smyrna'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 Smyrna. (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.)
Roughly 597 feet (182 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Smyrna comes in around 2,191 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. Smyrna's index of 97 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
Smyrna scores 26 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 $68,208 to live in Smyrna 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 Smyrna runs about $1,281/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.