HallsTN
10,272 people call this town in Tennessee home.
Is Halls a good place to live?
A solid town with one catch. Where it does best is incomes — the median household earns $91K. Add schools to its strengths: its schools outperform 66% of the state's. The catch is walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. Homes run about $321K for a typical one, 4.4 times the Knoxville metro’s $72K median household income. Overall, that makes a B+, better than just over two thirds of U.S. towns. It ranks 28th of 175 in Tennessee.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow.
96% of working residents leave Halls for work
Where Halls’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Halls grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Tennessee), ordered by how far Halls is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Dollywood and 29 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Halls. Close and well known come first.
Big draw30 mi Theme parkDollywood3.1M visitors a year
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaNeyland Stadium
Big draw26 mi National ParkGreat Smoky Mountains National Park11.5M visitors a year
8 mi LookoutSunsphere
28 mi MuseumAlcatraz East
9 mi Stadium & arenaThompson-Boling Arena at Food City CenterPhoto credits
Dollywood: Brian Stansberry (photographer), CC BY 2.5 · Neyland Stadium: Neomrbungle, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Scott Basford, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sunsphere: Ɱ, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Alcatraz East: EricaLewHouse, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center: TN 66, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Halls: who provides what
Halls is unincorporated, so Knox County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Halls.
In Halls, 1.3% of the land is conserved
Halls’ concentration of trails is 0.7 miles per square mile. 5.7 miles of trail in 4 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Halls Community Park, at 35 acres.
| Halls | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.7 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.3% | 1.8% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Halls Community Park | 0.8 mi | 35 |
| 2. Halls Greenway Park | 0.7 mi | 16 |
| 3. DeBusk Estate | — | 24 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
For schools, Halls earns a B+
The public schools here belong to the Knox County school district. The largest public high school is Halls High School, with 1,236 students. Of its 4 schools, three are listed below, each with the reason.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halls Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 945 | B− |
| Halls High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,236 | C+ |
| Brickey McCloud ElementaryTop results in townGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 851 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TN on state tests and graduation
About half of Halls’ working residents commute to Knoxville
Most working residents leave Halls for work: only 4% work in town. In Halls, 8% of residents live below the poverty line, against 14% in Tennessee’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Half the trips to work are shorter than 11 miles. The top destinations are Knoxville (47%), Oak Ridge (5%) and Nashville (3%).
| Halls | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $91,000 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.8% | 12% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 8% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 8.8% | 9.6% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The median age in Halls is higher than in most of Tennessee or the rest of the country
In Halls, 17% of residents are under 18, where Tennessee’s towns sit at 22% and U.S. towns at 22%. 27% of residents are 65 or older here. College graduates make up 36% of adults 25 and older, against 31% across Tennessee.
| Halls | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 51.6 years | 40 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 27% | 18% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 17% | 22% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 23% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.6 points. Across Tennessee, 50.9% of residents are women.
| Halls | TN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 6.8% | 11.9% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.1% | 10.3% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.4% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 7.4% | 13.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.5% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15.7% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 15.9% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 11.2% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 5.1% | 10% | 10.4% |
| High school | 26.9% | 31.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 20.3% | 19.9% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12.1% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 26.6% | 19.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 9% | 11.7% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Halls: mild winters and pleasant summers
Summer afternoons peak near 87° in July, and January nights bottom out around 29°; snowfall runs to about 4 inches a winter. Halls brings mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Halls is less healthy than 54% of U.S. towns
Within Tennessee it is healthier than 75% of the 176 graded towns: much of Tennessee scores lower on these measures. Against the 9,858 U.S. towns with household incomes like Halls’s, it is less healthy than 69%, so it trails even them.
The share of adults in Halls who had a checkup this year: 81%. The town beats the Tennessee average on 10 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 2. Among adults in the town, 30% have been diagnosed with depression and 42% have high blood pressure.
| Halls | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 39% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 29% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 41% | 35% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 39% | 35% |
| What stands out | Halls | TN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.6% | 16.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 8.9% | 13.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.4% | 8.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Halls has a moderate natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
On expected storm and flood damage, Halls sits below 53% of U.S. communities. 50% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by earthquakes at 22%. The national flood insurance program has paid 46 claims in the town since 1982.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Halls
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Halls
About 6 of every 100 Halls residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Tennessee.
Halls’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Halls.
Halls reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Halls with a neighbor →
Questions about Halls
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Halls, TN a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Halls grades B+ overall, better than 68% of U.S. towns and #28 of 175 in Tennessee. It grades B− for health and B+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Halls, TN expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.