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Bledsoe, Tennessee

Score 7.34 / 10· population 15,060

Bledsoe County, the northernmost county in the Sequatchie Valley, has Pikeville as its seat and takes in part of the Cumberland Plateau, with Fall Creek Falls State Park nearby. Census estimates for 2020 to 2024 put 12.3 percent of employed residents in government jobs, against 13.7 percent statewide. Life expectancy ran above the state's in 2020 to 2022, 76.3 years against 73.5.

Sources
  • Bledsoe County is the oldest and northernmost county in the Sequatchie Valley; it divides into the Sequatchie Valley, the Cumberland Plateau and Walden Ridge; Fall Creek Falls State Park is nearby, at a Cumberland Plateau site tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Pikeville is the Bledsoe County seat tnecd.com
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), table B24080 class of worker: local, state and federal government workers are 12.3% of the employed civilian population 16 and over in Bledsoe County (748 of 6,085) and 13.7% in Tennessee api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: life expectancy 76.3 years in Bledsoe County and 73.5 in Tennessee, data years 2020-2022 countyhealthrankings.org

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)8.3
  2. 2A (state)10.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President8.5
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax7.8

Environment

  1. Air quality5.9
  2. Floods / hurricanes6.5

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.5
  2. Life expectancy6.5
  3. Government employees10.0
  4. Single-parent households3.9

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