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Cumberland, Tennessee

Score 7.02 / 10· population 64,760

Cumberland County covers 681 square miles of mostly forested Cumberland Plateau in East Tennessee, where Fairfield Glade and other retirement developments have drawn thousands of people. Government employed 10.1 percent of working residents in 2024, compared with 13.8 percent for the state, and the median homeowner paid $786 in property tax, about half of Tennessee's $1,488. One child in six lived with a single parent from 2019 to 2023, against more than one in four across Tennessee.

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  • The county covers the Cumberland Plateau and remains 75 percent forested tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Retirement facilities such as Fairfield Glade and Lake Tansi Resort brought thousands of people to visit, build homes, and retire tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Cumberland County is in the East Tennessee grand division; land area 681.3 square miles tnecd.com
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table B24080 (class of worker, civilian employed population 16+): local, state and federal government workers were 2,476 of 24,402 in Cumberland County (10.1%) and 486,655 of 3,525,120 in Tennessee (13.8%) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table B25103: median real estate taxes paid by owner-occupied housing units were $786 in Cumberland County and $1,488 in Tennessee api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 analytic data: children in single-parent households 16.7% in Cumberland County (1,748 of 10,474) and 27.3% in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 technical documentation: the Children in Single-Parent Households measure uses American Community Survey five-year estimates 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 President7.9
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax8.6

Environment

  1. Air quality6.0
  2. Floods / hurricanes4.2

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.5
  2. Life expectancy3.1
  3. Government employees9.8
  4. Single-parent households7.9

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