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Blount, Tennessee

Score 6.67 / 10· population 141,456

Blount County is in the Knoxville metro area, bordered on the east by Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and its seat, Maryville, is 14 miles from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. DENSO Manufacturing and Clayton Homes are the two largest employers, and in 2024 government jobs went to 11.9 percent of employed residents, under Tennessee's 13.8 percent. In 2019 to 2023, 19 percent of children lived with a single parent, against 27 percent statewide.

Sources
  • Blount County is bordered on the east by Great Smoky Mountains National Park blountchamber.com
  • The University of Tennessee at Knoxville is 14 miles from Maryville blountchamber.com
  • Blount County's seat is Maryville and its metro area is Knoxville, TN tnecd.com
  • DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee (est. 4,557) and Clayton Homes (est. 3,496), both in Maryville, are first and second on the county's top-employer list (list undated) tnecd.com
  • ACS 2024 1-year: 8,341 of 69,971 employed Blount County residents (11.9%) were local, state, or federal government workers; Tennessee 13.8% api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: 19.3% of Blount County children live in single-parent households; Tennessee 27.3% countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings single-parent measure uses ACS five-year data for 2019-2023 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 President7.3
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax7.6

Environment

  1. Air quality5.4
  2. Floods / hurricanes2.6

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.0
  2. Life expectancy4.5
  3. Government employees7.4
  4. Single-parent households6.6

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