South Knoxville News

Blount County residents have a median age of 44-years-old as of 2021, according to US Census Data.

Median ages divide a population into two equally sized groups, rather than the average which takes all the ages of Blount County residents and divides it by the number of residents.

OurWorldinData.org, an online project tracking global data and trends, says cities, states, countries and continents with higher median ages typically do better economically and residents earn higher wages than developing countries.

The median age of a United States resident has risen from 29.5-years-old in 1960 to 38.4-years-old in 2019. It has risen fairly consistently by two years every decade since the 1970's.

Ethnicity	Median Age - Male	Median Age - Female
American Indian and Alaska Native	38	58
Asian	51	47
Black or African American	41	37
Hispanic or Latino	27	22
White	44	46
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	27	-
Some other race	17	30
Multiracial	23	20