MillersvilleTN
A town of 6,438. Public schools that outperform most of Tennessee.
Is Millersville a good place to live?
Millersville grades C+ overall, 70th among Tennessee's 175 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Its schools rank ahead of 93% of Tennessee towns. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 79% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Only 28 of Tennessee’s 292 towns score lower on history. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 84% of U.S. towns. Millersville’s median rent is $1,475 a month, above both the Tennessee town median ($944 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month).
What makes Millersville stand out
Where Millersville beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Millersville for work
Where Millersville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Millersville grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Tennessee), ordered by how far Millersville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Nissan Stadium and 30 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Millersville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaNissan Stadium
13 mi TheatreRyman Auditorium
18 mi MuseumParthenon
14 mi MuseumThe Hermitage
17 mi Stadium & arenaBridgestone Arena
18 mi Stadium & arenaFirstBank StadiumPhoto credits
Nissan Stadium: Kaldari, CC0 · Ryman Auditorium: Unknown, CC0 · Parthenon: Mayur Phadtare, CC BY-SA 3.0 · The Hermitage: Jim Bowen from Zhenhai, China, CC BY 2.0 · Bridgestone Arena: EVula, CC BY 3.0 · FirstBank Stadium: Mhar564, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Millersville: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Millersville, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Millersville.
Millersville fares better on crime within Tennessee than nationally and looks healthier within Tennessee than nationally, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Tennessee (mostly inland flooding).
Millersville earns an A for schools
Its A is the best School Grade on its borders; White House (A−) is next.
Its public schools are run by the Sumner County school district. One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millersville ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 252 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TN on state tests and graduation
Millersville faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 94% of Tennessee towns, with expected losses of about $307 per resident a year; that rating is what its C− for hazard risk is built on.
Since 2009, 24 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Millersville.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
About half of Millersville’s working residents commute to Nashville
Jobs based here grew from 627 in 2013 to 1,024.
Most working residents leave Millersville for work: only 1% work in town. Since 2013, Millersville has added 397 jobs, to 1,024 in 2023. Millersville’s average trip to work is 22 minutes.
| Millersville | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.5% | 12% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $72,000 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On CDC estimates, Millersville is less healthy than 72% of U.S. towns
Within Tennessee it is healthier than 62% of the 176 graded towns: much of Tennessee scores lower on these measures.
Millersville beats the Tennessee average on 6 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 30% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Millersville.
| Millersville | Tennessee towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 29% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 20% | 17% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 78% | 79% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| What stands out | Millersville | TN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 5.8% | 7% |
| Fewer adults who have had a stroke | 3.1% | 3.7% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 72.9% | 76.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Four seasons and hot summers in Millersville
Millersville has mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Millersville is 89°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Millersville is safer than 59% of U.S. towns, by crime per resident
At 14.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 78% of Tennessee’s graded towns. Its B tops all 3 graded towns on its borders; White House (B−) comes closest.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
0.6% of Millersville is conserved land
Just 57 of its 8,791 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Millersville itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.5 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Millersville City Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median home in Millersville sells for about $396K
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Millersville
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Millersville
About 2 of every 100 Millersville residents are enrolled in college, against 5 across Tennessee.
About Millersville
City in Tennessee, United States
Millersville is a city in Robertson and Sumner counties, Tennessee. The population was 6,229 at the 2020 United States census
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 14 sq mi
- Elevation
- 505 ft
- Area code
- 615
Millersville’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Millersville.
| Town | TN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millersville | #70 | C+ | C | B | A | C |
| Nashville | — | — | D | D− | — | — |
| Goodlettsville | #124 | C− | C | B− | C+ | C |
| Ridgetop | — | — | B | — | C | B− |
| White House | #26 | B+ | B− | B− | A− | B− |
Ridgetop has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Ridgetop reports no FBI crime data of its own. Nashville isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Millersville with a neighbor →
Questions about Millersville
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Millersville, TN a good place to live?
Millersville grades C+ overall, better than 40% of U.S. towns and #70 of 175 in Tennessee. It grades C for health, B for safety and A for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Millersville, TN expensive?
The typical home is worth about $310,000, 6% below the Tennessee typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.