Rank

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Claiborne, Tennessee

Score 6.56 / 10· population 32,654

Claiborne County runs up to Cumberland Gap, just south of where Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky meet, and sits 60 miles from Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport. England Inc in New Tazewell and Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate each employ about 1,000 people, and the county's 2.25 percent levy lifts sales tax to 9.25 percent. County Health Rankings data put Claiborne's life expectancy for 2020 to 2022 at 71.1 years, nearly two and a half under the state's.

Sources
  • Cumberland Gap is located south of the convergence of Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is in KY, TN and VA; visitors can stand in three states at once nps.gov
  • Nearest commercial service airport is McGhee Tyson Airport (Knoxville), 60 miles away tnecd.com
  • Largest employers: England, Inc. (New Tazewell) est. 1,008 employees; Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate) est. 1,000 tnecd.com
  • Claiborne County and its cities (Cumberland Gap, Harrogate, New Tazewell, Tazewell) levy a 2.25% local option sales tax tnecd.com
  • The general Tennessee state sales tax rate is 7% tn.gov
  • County Health Rankings 2025: life expectancy 71.05 years in Claiborne County and 73.51 in Tennessee (2.46 years apart), 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 quality6.4
  2. Floods / hurricanes4.8

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.3
  2. Life expectancy0.9
  3. Government employees3.4
  4. Single-parent households5.8

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