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A town of 3,190, settled in 1929.
Bean Station gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $270K, 3.7 years of the Knoxville metro’s $72K median household income. It grades C overall, ranked 85th of 175 in Tennessee. The low prices come with trade-offs. CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 93% of the country. 15% of the land in Bean Station is conserved, where Tennessee’s towns sit at 1.7% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. On civic life, just 1 of Tennessee’s 232 towns do worse. Tate Springs Springhouse (Additional Documentation) is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Bean Station beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Bean Station’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Tennessee), ordered by how far Bean Station is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 2,356 in 1990, 2,967 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1925 and 3 maps from 1935 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Bean Station, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Bean Station.
Bean Station is healthier than towns with similar incomes, has added half again as many jobs in ten years and has milder winter nights than most of the country, though not than most of Tennessee.
3.3 miles of trail in 5 parks and preserves. At 0.6 miles per square mile, Bean Station’s trail density is against 0.2 in Tennessee’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bean Station Town Park | 0.3 mi | 15 |
| 2. Crosby Pothole Refuge | — | 14 |
| 3. Harris Court Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the Grainger County school district. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bean Station ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 437 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TN on state tests and graduation
Against the 3,916 U.S. towns with household incomes like Bean Station’s, it is less healthy than 75%, so its D isn’t only a matter of income.
22% of Bean Station adults smoke cigarettes. Bean Station beats the Tennessee average on 0 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 11. 18% of Bean Station adults report frequent physical distress.
| Bean Station | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 19% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 29% | 23% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 12% |
| What stands out | Bean Station | TN |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 23% | 14.6% |
| More adults with COPD | 11.9% | 8.6% |
| More adults with heart disease | 9.2% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Jobs based here grew from 535 in 2013 to 822.
Most working residents leave Bean Station for work: only 6% work in town. 18% of residents live below the poverty line in Bean Station. Since 2013, Bean Station has added 287 jobs, to 822 in 2023.
| Bean Station | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 18% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $45,000 | $61,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 6.1% | 12% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
January nights average 27.2°: milder than most of the country, but colder than 89% of Tennessee places with climate records; July afternoons average 86.8°.
Bean Station has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. About 9 inches of snow falls in a winter.
| Bean Station | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 87°F | 89°F | 85°F |
| January low | 27°F | 29°F | 22°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 66% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The typical Bean Station home is worth about $270,000, up 2.9% in a year, 18% below the Tennessee typical home.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Bean Station’s violent crime rate is 0.3 per 1,000 residents. Bean Station's reported crime rate is well below Tennessee's. Bean Station’s property crime rate is 5.5 per 1,000 residents.
| Bean Station | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2024) | 0.3 per 1,000 residents | 3.1 | 1.7 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2024) | 5.5 per 1,000 residents | 13.3 | 11.5 |
FBI crime data, 2024 · crimes reported to police
1 within 15 miles of the center of Bean Station
About 0 of every 100 Bean Station residents are enrolled in college, against 5 across Tennessee.
Town in Tennessee, US
Bean Station is a town located mostly in Grainger County, Tennessee, with a small portion in Hawkins County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,967. It is part of the Kingsport and Knoxville metropolitan statistical areas. Pioneer William Bean established Bean Station in 1776 as a frontier outpost; it is considered one of the earliest permanently settled communities in Tennessee. During the 18th and 19th centuries, due to its strategic location at the crossroads of Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road and the Great Indian Warpath, the town grew to become an important stopover for early pioneers and settlers in the Appalachia region. During the American Civil War, the town was the site of…
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One town shares a border with Bean Station.
| Town | TN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bean Station | #85 | C | A | — | C+ | D |
| Mooresburg | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Bean Station reports no FBI crime data of its own. Mooresburg isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Bean Station with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Bean Station grades C overall, better than 30% of U.S. towns and #85 of 175 in Tennessee. It grades D for health and C+ for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.
2 notable people were born here, including Peter Ellis Bean and Robert E. Preston.