Rank

1315of 3,144

Carroll, Tennessee

Score 6.42 / 10· population 28,860

Carroll County's seat is Huntingdon, and its largest employers are Bethel University in McKenzie and Granges Americas in Huntingdon. Huntingdon, McKenzie and five other towns each add 2.75 percent to the state's 7 percent sales tax. A quarter of adults smoked in 2022, against 19 percent statewide, and from 2020 to 2022 people here could expect to live 70.6 years, almost three fewer than the Tennessee average.

Sources
  • Huntingdon is the Carroll County seat; the top two employers on the TNECD list are Bethel University in McKenzie (est. 521 employees) and Granges Americas Inc. in Huntingdon (est. 450) tnecd.com
  • Carroll County local option sales tax rate is 2.75%; all seven cities listed (Atwood, Bruceton, Clarksburg, Hollow Rock, Huntingdon, McKenzie, McLemoresville) are at 2.75% tnecd.com
  • The general Tennessee state sales tax rate is 7% tn.gov
  • County Health Rankings 2025: 25.3% of Carroll County adults smoked, against 19.2% in Tennessee (2022 data) countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: life expectancy 70.6 years in Carroll 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 President8.0
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax7.5

Environment

  1. Air quality5.9
  2. Floods / hurricanes4.8

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.5
  2. Life expectancy1.1
  3. Government employees4.0
  4. Single-parent households5.3

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