Town · Cheatham County, Tennessee

Pegram, Tennessee

Pegram is a town in Cheatham County, Tennessee, part of the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro area. It has 2,089 residents. Pegram, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 41 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,253 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #57 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on poverty rate (low), child care cost burden (low) and drinking water violations (low). It ranks worst on dentists (low), injury deaths (high) and depression (high).

41Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #9,253 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #57 of 305 in TN
Population: 2,089 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 288.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 4757480

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety33#10,489/15,637
Economy86#2,264/15,631
Housing62#5,709/14,977
Health21#12,268/15,609
Healthcare29#11,142/15,650
Environment36#9,871/15,453
Education54#7,239/15,649
Infrastructure76#3,833/15,650
Community27#11,364/15,651
Leisure & amenities21#12,315/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Pegram, Tennessee ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Cheatham County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Poverty rate · low0.3%
100/100Tennessee 13.3%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Child care cost burden · low20.3%
94/100Tennessee 22.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCheatham County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Tennessee 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCheatham County value
Broadband subscriptions · high97.2%
86/100Tennessee 89.2%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Job growth · high1.5%
84/100Tennessee -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataCheatham County value
Dental care shortage · low0.0
84/100Tennessee 9.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationCheatham County value

Weaknesses

Dentists · low14 /100k
2/100Tennessee 57 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCheatham County value
Injury deaths · high155 /100k
3/100Tennessee 122 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCheatham County value
Depression · high29.2%
6/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Public EV charging ports · low0.5 /10k
8/100Tennessee 4.3 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyCheatham County value
Life expectancy · low72.4 yrs
9/100Tennessee 73.8 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCheatham County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high103 mi
9/100Tennessee 93 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCheatham County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
2,597 (2015-2019) → 2,089 (2020-2024)
−20%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
2.1 /1k (2021) → 3.4 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+56%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
26.2% (2015-2019) → 35.8% (2020-2024)
+9.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$77,634 (2015-2019) → $111,172 (2020-2024)
+43%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
78.3% (2015-2019) → 70.0% (2020-2024)
−8.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
51.0% (2015-2019) → 43.4% (2020-2024)
−7.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Pegram, Tennessee improved on 3 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Rent / income−7.6 points51.0% → 43.4%
Bachelor's++9.7 points26.2% → 35.8%
Household income+43%$77,634 → $111,172

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Pegram, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	33.7 min2015-2019	31.4 min2020-2024	−2.3 min	Within the margin of error	74%
Bachelor's degree or higher	26.2%2015-2019	35.8%2020-2024	+9.7 points	Improved	89%
Broadband subscriptions	93.2%2015-2019	97.2%2020-2024	+4 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Effective property tax rate	0.67%2015-2019	0.57%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	35%
High school diploma or higher	90.0%2015-2019	94.9%2020-2024	+4.9 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	48%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3592015-2019	0.3892020-2024	+0.030	Within the margin of error	27%
Median household income	$77,6342015-2019	$111,1722020-2024	+43%	Improved	78%
Rent as share of income	51.0%2015-2019	43.4%2020-2024	−7.6 points	Improved	89%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Pegram, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Pegram, Tennessee in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Pegram, Tennessee itself moved +3.9 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,089 residents (±401)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

896 households (±162)

Pegram, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k2.7%†24
$25k–50k21%†186
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

896 households (±162)

Pegram, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own91%819
Rent8.6%†77

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,195 workers (±257)

Pegram, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone59%708
Carpool8.8%†105
Public transit0.6%†7

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Cheatham County, the county holding most of Pegram's residents.

Cheatham County has 714 employer establishments, 169 for every 10,000 residents (0.68× the US rate of 248; 0.81× Tennessee's), with 7,649 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,997. The Census Bureau also counts 4,040 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 714; 4,040 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 169; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 7,649
Average annual pay: $49,997; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Cheatham County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	99	23.4	1.51×More than typical	691	$67,058	447
Restaurants and other eating places	54	12.8	0.70×Fewer than typical	942	$18,938	9
Services to buildings and dwellings	43	10.2	1.51×More than typical	121	$45,074	355
Ambulatory health care services	41	9.7	0.47×Fewer than typical	306	$50,644	130
Building equipment contractors	38	9	1.50×More than typical	258	$73,248	87
Construction of buildings	29	6.9	0.91×About typical	146	$71,068	196
Truck transportation	29	6.9	1.36×More than typical	335	$59,009	69
Religious organizations	28	6.6	1.20×About typical	108	$20,093	—
Landscaping services	27	6.4	1.83×More than typical	68	$53,382	135
Limited-service restaurants	26	6.2	0.77×Fewer than typical	567	$17,437	—
Full-service restaurants	22	5.2	0.68×Fewer than typical	323	$22,443	5
Gasoline stations	22	5.2	1.61×More than typical	224	$31,000	—

Rank places for an industry Open Cheatham County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 42,223 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $34.3K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Pegram, Tennessee: $16.43 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $34.3K; −34% vs FY2025
Per resident: $16.43; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of Veterans Affairs$34.3K100%

Top recipients

PURE AIR UV INC.$34.3K100%

Spending by fiscal year

5.6KFY2017
11.1KFY2018
13.5KFY2019
19.2KFY2020
8.1KFY2021
28.1KFY2022
12.7KFY2023
12.3K

Top industries (NAICS)

Medical and diagnostic laboratories · 6215$34.3K100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Pegram, Tennessee, so they do not add up across cities.

Pegram, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Cheatham County, TN ($842.6K in FY2026), never added to them: 4.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Pegram is mostly in Cheatham County.

See federal money in Cheatham County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Pegram, Tennessee is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Matt Van EppsR-TN-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.0%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Cheatham County44100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN57

Other cities and towns in Cheatham County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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