Chapel Hill vs Lewisburg

A side-by-side comparison of Chapel Hill and Lewisburg: population, income, housing, and more.

Chapel Hill and Lewisburg are places in Tennessee. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Lewisburg has the higher population (12,607 vs 1,531 in Chapel Hill). Chapel Hill has the higher median household income ($77,826 vs $52,634 in Lewisburg). Chapel Hill has the higher median home value ($276,700 vs $183,400 in Lewisburg).

Population, income & housing

	Chapel Hill	Lewisburg
Population	1,531	12,607
Median age	44.2 yrs	34.9 yrs
Median household income	$77,826	$52,634
Median home value	$276,700	$183,400
Median gross rent	$1,150	$859
Housing units	710	5,457
Homeownership rate	84.2%	61.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.8%	16.5%
Unemployment rate	2.6%	5.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Chapel Hill	Lewisburg
Population	1,551 → 1,531 (-1.3%)	11,910 → 12,607 (+5.9%)
Median household income	$53,750 → $77,826 (+44.8%)	$42,298 → $52,634 (+24.4%)
Median home value	$143,100 → $276,700 (+93.4%)	$96,800 → $183,400 (+89.5%)
Median gross rent	$1,002 → $1,150 (+14.8%)	$724 → $859 (+18.6%)

Chapel Hill

Population

1,5511,531

Median household income

$53,750$77,826

Median home value

$143,100$276,700

Median gross rent

$1,002$1,150

Lewisburg

Population

11,91012,607

Median household income

$42,298$52,634

Median home value

$96,800$183,400

Median gross rent

$724$859

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Chapel Hill	Lewisburg
Under 5	5.7%	8.1%
5 to 17	11.4%	18.3%
18 to 24	8.6%	7.2%
25 to 34	13.6%	16.4%
35 to 44	11.6%	12.9%
45 to 54	17.7%	9.0%
55 to 64	17.9%	11.8%
65 to 74	8.7%	9.6%
75 and over	4.9%	6.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Chapel Hill	Lewisburg
White (non-Hispanic)	91.1%	74.5%
Black or African American	4.6%	8.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.4%
Asian	0.0%	0.4%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	1.3%
Two or more races	2.8%	3.9%
Hispanic or Latino	1.5%	11.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Chapel Hill	Lewisburg
No high school diploma	7.3%	13.0%
High school graduate	47.5%	38.0%
Some college or associate's	30.4%	32.5%
Bachelor's degree	9.8%	10.5%
Graduate or professional degree	5.0%	6.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Chapel Hill	Lewisburg
Drove alone	83.4%	84.3%
Carpooled	10.7%	6.5%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.7%	0.5%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.1%	7.7%
Other means	0.0%	0.9%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Chapel Hill	Lewisburg
1-unit, detached	87.2%	77.0%
1-unit, attached	0.3%	1.7%
2 to 4 units	0.7%	7.7%
5 to 19 units	3.2%	8.2%
20 or more units	0.4%	2.6%
Mobile home & other	8.2%	2.8%

Poverty & households

	Chapel Hill	Lewisburg
Poverty rate	4.1%	25.7%
Average household size	2.30	2.50
Mean commute (minutes)	35	25
Median year structure built	1992	1977