Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maryville's standout: its schools rank ahead of 95% of Tennessee towns. Overall it grades A−, 16th among Tennessee's 175 graded towns. The median household earns $82K. On this, Maryville is above both the Tennessee town median (12%) and the median of U.S. towns (8%). Its National Register listings include Maryville College Historic District and Anderson Hall (Additional Documentation). On walkability, just 26 of Tennessee’s 292 towns do better.
Where Maryville beats most towns.
Anderson Hall (Additional Documentation)
Its founding year, 1785, comes before those of 96% of the Tennessee towns we grade with a known year.
Census counts: 513 in 1850, 31,907 in 2020. The archive holds 16 old photos and papers going back to 1819 and 5 maps from 1935 on.
24 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Tennessee), ordered by how far Maryville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Maryville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw25 mi Theme parkDollywood3.1M visitors a year
Big draw7 mi National ParkGreat Smoky Mountains National Park11.5M visitors a year
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaNeyland Stadium
Big draw30 mi MountainKuwohi
15 mi LookoutSunsphere
31 mi MountainMount Le ConteDollywood: Brian Stansberry (photographer), CC BY 2.5 · Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Scott Basford, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Neyland Stadium: Neomrbungle, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kuwohi: C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr., Public domain · Sunsphere: Ɱ, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mount Le Conte: No machine-readable author provided. Blinutne assumed (based on copyright claims, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Maryville, 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 Maryville.
Maryville has schools in the top 5% of Tennessee, draws workers from Knoxville and beyond and fares better on crime within Tennessee than nationally.
Its A+ ranks #9 of the 176 Tennessee towns we grade for schools. Its A+ is the best School Grade on its borders; Alcoa (A−) is next.
Its public schools are run by the Maryville school district. Three of its 9 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coulter Grove Intermediate SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 4–7 | Grades 4–7 | 902 | A+ |
| Maryville High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 10–12 | Grades 10–12 | 1,231 | A− |
| Foothills ElementaryTop results in townGrades PK–3 | Grades PK–3 | 660 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TN on state tests and graduation
25,232 jobs are based in Maryville, 1.9 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in.
About one in 4 of Maryville’s working residents works in town. Jobs based in Maryville grew to 25,232 in 2023, 4,547 more than in 2013. 6.7% of residents live below the poverty line in Maryville.
| Maryville | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 26% | 12% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.7% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $82,000 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
5.5 miles of trail in 10 parks and preserves. The biggest place to walk is Maryville College Woods, 135 acres with 3.5 miles of trail.
| Maryville | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.9% | 1.8% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Maryville College Woods | 3.5 mi | 135 |
| 2. Sandy Springs Park | 0.4 mi | 21 |
| 3. Bicentennial Greenbelt Park | 0.4 mi | 18 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 70% of U.S. communities. Since 1981, 8 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Maryville.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Maryville has mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 30° and about 5 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median property tax bill is $2,456, against $1,442 across Tennessee, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The typical Maryville home is worth about $393,000, up 2.6% in a year, 19% above the Tennessee typical home.
| Maryville | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 68% | 65% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,157 a month | $944 a month | $1,185 a month |
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
At 13.5 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 81% of Tennessee’s graded towns. Reported crimes fell from 361 to 283 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
The property crime rate in Maryville is 7.1 per 1,000 residents.
| Maryville | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 7.1 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
39% of Maryville adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more.
| Maryville | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 39% | 23% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 23% | 22% | 22% |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±1.8 points. Across Tennessee, 50.9% of residents are women.
| Maryville | TN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.4% | 11.9% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12% | 10.3% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.7% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 11.5% | 13.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.4% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.5% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11.4% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.8% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.3% | 6.7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6.3% | 10% | 10.4% |
| High school | 29.7% | 31.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 17.4% | 19.9% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.1% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 22.4% | 19.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 16.1% | 11.7% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Within Tennessee it is healthier than 74% of the 176 graded towns: much of Tennessee scores lower on these measures.
Maryville beats the Tennessee average on 4 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 1.
| Maryville | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 29% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 20% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 19% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 41% | 35% |
| What stands out | Maryville | TN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 10.6% | 13.3% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 7.3% | 9.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.3% | 8.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
3 within 15 miles of the center of Maryville
About 5 of every 100 Maryville residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Tennessee.
27,465 counted in 2010 and 31,907 in 2020; an estimated 32,442 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
24 places in Maryville on the National Register of Historic Places.
17 notable people were born in Maryville.
City in Tennessee, United States
Maryville is a city in and the county seat of Blount County, Tennessee. Its population was 31,907 at the 2020 census.
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4 towns share a border with Maryville.
At #16 in TN, it grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Louisville (B−) comes closest. Louisville next door grades lower for schools (B+ to Maryville’s A+) and higher for cost of living (B+ to C).
| Town | TN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryville | #16 | A− | C | B | A+ | C+ |
| Alcoa | #98 | C | C | C | A− | C− |
| Eagleton Village | #50 | B− | A− | — | B+ | D |
| Louisville | #43 | B− | B+ | — | B+ | C+ |
| Friendsville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Eagleton Village and Louisville report no FBI crime data of their own. Friendsville isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Maryville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Maryville grades A− overall, better than 77% of U.S. towns and #16 of 175 in Tennessee. It grades C+ for health, B for safety and A+ for schools.
That is 5.4 years of the area's median household income ($72,422 across the Knoxville, 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 C.
17 notable people were born here, including Lamar Alexander and Jack Greene.
