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Home inspectors in the Cookeville, TN area
The home inspectors in the Cookeville, TN area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other small-town markets.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Too few small-town markets have 5 or more listings to score them against each other.
- Listings
- 5
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $795.9M
- On rent and homeowner costs · $13,560 a household
- Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)
- 61
- 39% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.9
- 50% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 152,477
- +7.6% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 5 home inspectors in the Cookeville area. None of them are chain locations, against 3% across the U.S. That is 0.9 per 10,000 households, 50% above the U.S. rate of 0.6.
Household spending on rent and homeowner costs in the Cookeville area comes to about $795.9M a year: $13,560 per household, 19% below the U.S. average. Housing spending per business is 39% below the U.S. figure. That figure is all rent and homeowner costs, used as a measure of housing demand; it is not money home inspectors take in.
In 2023, official counts showed 3 businesses with payroll in the Cookeville area classed as building inspection services. That is one for every 19,564 households, against one for every 17,237 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in the Cookeville area from 2020 to 2025 at +7.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Too few small-town markets have 5 or more home inspectors on map listings to score them against each other.
How the Cookeville area compares
The same measures for Tennessee and the whole U.S. Housing spending per listing divides all rent and homeowner costs by the listings counted: a measure of housing demand for each business, not money any of them take in, so it is shown against the U.S. (100) only. Households per establishment divides households by the official count.
| Measure | Cookeville area | Tennessee | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | 61 | 84 | 100 |
| Households per official establishment | 19,564 | 24,559 | 17,237 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | 0.0% | +6.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +7.6% | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on rent and homeowner costs | $13,560 | $14,833 | $16,661 |
| Median household income | $55,380 | $69,595 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 48 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3
- Employees, 2023
- 4
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $244K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 50 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as building inspection services in the Cookeville area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Cookeville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 152,477+7.6% since 2020
- Households
- 58,693
- Median age
- 40.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 1,520 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 96
- Median household income
- $55,380
- Average household income
- $75,930
- Median home value
- $237,000
- Jobs located here
- 55,382
- Daytime population
- 142,620Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
- Real estate50
- Real estate agents and brokers55
- Property management63
- Mortgage brokers and lenders66
- Home inspectors
Funeral services
Questions
How many home inspectors are in the Cookeville, TN area?
There are 5 home inspectors on map listings in the Cookeville area as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count home inspectors. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as building inspection services in 2023.
How much do households in the Cookeville, TN area spend on rent and homeowner costs?
About $795.9M a year, or $13,560 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). For the 5 home inspectors on map listings, housing spending per business is 39% below the U.S. figure. The spending figure is all rent and homeowner costs, a measure of housing demand, not money home inspectors take in. It is estimated from the incomes of the 58,693 households in the Cookeville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Cookeville, TN area compare with the U.S. for home inspectors?
The Cookeville area has 0.9 home inspectors per 10,000 households, 50% above the U.S. rate of 0.6. The index of housing spending per business is 61, where 100 is the U.S. At the national ratio of home inspectors to household spending, the Cookeville area would have about 3, against 5 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 19,564 households, against one for every 17,237 across the U.S.
How fast is the Cookeville, TN area growing?
Population estimates put the Cookeville area at 152,477 people in 2025, up 7.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 58,693 households. Median household income in the Cookeville area is $55,380, 31% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Too few small-town markets have 5 or more home inspectors on map listings to score them against each other.
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