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0% of its land is conserved. Overall it grades C+, 68th of 175 graded towns in Tennessee. The median household earns $118K. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 87% of U.S. towns. Coopertown’s typical household income is $118,000, where Tennessee’s towns sit at $60,000 and U.S. towns at $80,000. Frierson Chapel is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Coopertown beats most towns.
Where Coopertown’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 Coopertown is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 3,027 in 2000, 4,480 in 2020. The archive holds 2 old photos and papers going back to 2022 and 3 maps from 1931 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Coopertown, 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 Coopertown.
Coopertown looks healthier within Tennessee than nationally and has household incomes well above the Tennessee norm.
Nine in ten households live in a home they own in Coopertown. The median rent for Coopertown comes to $1,435 a month. Home values are up 1.2% over the year to September 2026.
| Coopertown | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 90% | 65% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,435 a month | $944 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The public schools here belong to the Robertson County school district. One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coopertown Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 617 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TN on state tests and graduation
In Coopertown, the average trip to work is 31 minutes. Just 2% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Employers in Coopertown added 580 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 801. The median commute is under 21 miles.
| Coopertown | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.8% | 12% | 8% |
| Work from home | 14% | 9.5% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 9.2% | 14% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The median household earns $118,241, against $69,595 across Tennessee, one input to its A for jobs and income.
College graduates make up 33% of adults 25 and older, against 31% across Tennessee. Adults 35 to 64 are 50% of residents (38% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 16% of residents (23% statewide). In Coopertown, 13% of residents are 65 or older. Since 2020, Coopertown has grown 8.2%, to 4,843 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Coopertown | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 13% | 18% | 18% |
| Median age | 43.5 years | 40 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 33% | 23% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 21% | 22% | 22% |
48% women, 52% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.4 points. Across Tennessee, 50.9% of residents are women.
| Coopertown | TN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 13.5% | 11.9% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 7.9% | 10.3% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.9% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 7.7% | 13.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.8% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 16.7% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 18.2% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 7.9% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.4% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 9.2% | 10% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.6% | 31.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 22.5% | 19.9% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 7.1% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 18.2% | 19.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.3% | 11.7% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 4,800, single groups can be off by several points
Summer afternoons peak near 89° in July, and January nights bottom out around 28°; snowfall runs to about 6 inches a winter. Summers in Coopertown are warm, and winters mild, with plenty of rain.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
8 violent crimes were reported in 2025. In Coopertown, the property offense rate is 4.5 per 1,000 residents. Coopertown's reported crime rate is well below Tennessee's. Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts.
| Coopertown | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 4.5 per 1,000 residents | 11.5 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.6 per 1,000 residents | 2.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Within Tennessee it is healthier than 83% of the 176 graded towns: much of Tennessee scores lower on these measures. Its widest gap with Tennessee is food insecurity: 10.1% of its 3,529 adults worry about having enough food, against 16.2% statewide.
For adults in Coopertown, the share who say their health is fair or poor is 18%. Against the Tennessee average, Coopertown comes out ahead on 13 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 1.
| Coopertown | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 29% | 23% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 16% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 24% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 28% | 25% |
| What stands out | Coopertown | TN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.1% | 16.2% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6% | 9.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.2% | 8.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
FEMA puts 38% of Coopertown’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 19% to earthquakes. Expected damage from storms and floods is lower here than in 54% of U.S. communities. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Coopertown once, in 2010.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Coopertown. Close and well known come first.
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaNissan Stadium
21 mi TheatreRyman Auditorium
20 mi MuseumParthenon
21 mi Stadium & arenaBridgestone Arena
24 mi MuseumThe Hermitage
21 mi Stadium & arenaFirstBank StadiumNissan Stadium: Kaldari, CC0 · Ryman Auditorium: Unknown, CC0 · Parthenon: Mayur Phadtare, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bridgestone Arena: EVula, CC BY 3.0 · The Hermitage: Jim Bowen from Zhenhai, China, CC BY 2.0 · FirstBank Stadium: Mhar564, CC BY-SA 4.0
None within 15 miles of Coopertown; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Coopertown residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Tennessee.
Town in Tennessee, United States
Coopertown is a town in southern Robertson County. Located in Middle Tennessee, Coopertown is part of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,480.
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2 towns share a border with Coopertown.
| Town | TN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coopertown | #68 | C+ | B− | — | C | B |
| Nashville | — | — | D | D− | — | — |
| Pleasant View | #17 | A− | B− | A | C+ | B |
Coopertown reports no FBI crime data of its own. Nashville isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Coopertown with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Coopertown grades C+ overall, better than 41% of U.S. towns and #68 of 175 in Tennessee. It grades B for health and C for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
That is 5.5 years of the area's median household income ($85,447 across the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
