Bluff City vs Walnut Hill

A side-by-side comparison of Bluff City and Walnut Hill: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Walnut Hill has the higher population (2,480 vs 2,268 in Bluff City). Walnut Hill has the higher median household income ($65,074 vs $59,783 in Bluff City). Walnut Hill has the higher median home value ($172,500 vs $147,400 in Bluff City).

Population, income & housing

	Bluff City	Walnut Hill
Population	2,268	2,480
Median age	34.3 yrs	46.6 yrs
Median household income	$59,783	$65,074
Median home value	$147,400	$172,500
Median gross rent	$889	—
Housing units	990	894
Homeownership rate	58.2%	96.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.8%	30.7%
Unemployment rate	4.8%	6.8%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Bluff City	Walnut Hill
Population	2,062 → 2,268 (+10.0%)	2,481 → 2,480 (-0.0%)
Median household income	$43,036 → $59,783 (+38.9%)	$51,375 → $65,074 (+26.7%)
Median home value	$109,000 → $147,400 (+35.2%)	$131,000 → $172,500 (+31.7%)
Median gross rent	$771 → $889 (+15.3%)	$480 → $1,279 (+166.5%)

Bluff City

Population

2,0622,268

Median household income

$43,036$59,783

Median home value

$109,000$147,400

Median gross rent

$771$889

Walnut Hill

Population

2,4812,480

Median household income

$51,375$65,074

Median home value

$131,000$172,500

Median gross rent

$480$1,279

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Bluff City	Walnut Hill
Under 5	9.0%	5.4%
5 to 17	16.6%	10.2%
18 to 24	7.6%	7.9%
25 to 34	19.7%	9.3%
35 to 44	11.7%	15.7%
45 to 54	14.1%	12.9%
55 to 64	11.6%	10.2%
65 to 74	5.8%	18.1%
75 and over	4.0%	10.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Bluff City	Walnut Hill
White (non-Hispanic)	98.2%	96.9%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	2.6%
Asian	0.0%	0.4%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.5%	0.1%
Hispanic or Latino	0.3%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Bluff City	Walnut Hill
No high school diploma	9.4%	10.9%
High school graduate	37.3%	28.0%
Some college or associate's	38.6%	30.4%
Bachelor's degree	9.1%	25.1%
Graduate or professional degree	5.7%	5.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Bluff City	Walnut Hill
Drove alone	76.9%	83.9%
Carpooled	9.0%	3.5%
Public transit	0.2%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	13.0%	12.7%
Other means	0.9%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Bluff City	Walnut Hill
1-unit, detached	53.7%	91.7%
1-unit, attached	3.0%	1.1%
2 to 4 units	4.2%	1.0%
5 to 19 units	14.3%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.7%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	23.9%	6.2%

Poverty & households

	Bluff City	Walnut Hill
Poverty rate	19.5%	3.6%
Average household size	2.51	2.87
Mean commute (minutes)	26	19
Median year structure built	1988	1970