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Karns CDP, Tennessee: commercial real estate data.
Karns CDP is a Census CDP of 4,115 people across 2.99 square miles of land, in Knox County. Median household income is $100,043, 77.4 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Karns
What Karns is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area2.99 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,378
- County holding the largest share of its areaKnox County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Karns
How many people live in Karns
- Population4,115
- Median age33.6
- Population under 181,266 plus or minus 307
- Share under 1830.8 percent
- Population 65 and over798 plus or minus 280
- Share 65 and over19.4 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Households1,507
- Family households1,026 plus or minus 220
- Share of households that are families68.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Karns
Income and work in Karns
- Median household income$100,043
- Per capita income$38,335
- Civilian labor force1,866 plus or minus 422
- Employed1,689 plus or minus 345
- Unemployed177 plus or minus 210
- Unemployment rate9.5 percent plus or minus 11.0
- Adults 25 and over2,642
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher43.5 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree13.8 percent plus or minus 7.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Karns
Housing in Karns
- Housing units1,519
- Occupied units1,507
- Vacant units12 plus or minus 19
- Vacancy rate0.8 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Owner occupied1,166 plus or minus 252
- Renter occupied341 plus or minus 194
- Ownership rate77.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$328,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,765
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.2 percent
- Single family units1,408 plus or minus 298
- Share single family92.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more61 plus or minus 55
- Share in buildings of two or more4.0 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Mobile homes50 plus or minus 45
- Median year structure built1992
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Karns
How Karns gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,332 plus or minus 295
- Commuting under 15 minutes142 plus or minus 88
- Share commuting under 15 minutes10.7 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more411 plus or minus 151
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more30.9 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Drove alone71.5 percent
- Carpooled7.8 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home20.7 percent plus or minus 8.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Knox County, not Karns
Knox County context, not Karns figures
These are Knox County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Karns measurements.
- Establishments in Knox County12,519
- Employment at those establishments, Knox County242,117
- Covered employment, Knox County260,373
- Average annual pay, Knox County$65,043
- Average weekly wage, Knox County$1,251
- Housing units permitted, Knox County4,508
- Of those, single family, Knox County2,544
- County product, 2024, Knox County$43,622,858,000
- County product change over the prior year, Knox County6.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Knox County$80,200
Every figure in this section is published for Knox County as a whole and is not a measurement of Karns. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Karns questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Karns, Tennessee?
4,115, in 1,507 households. Karns CDP covers 2.99 square miles of land, which is 1,378 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Karns in?
Knox County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Karns?
$100,043. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $328,600. Median gross rent is $1,765 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Karns figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Knox County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Karns.
Is zoning published for Karns?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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