Rank

868of 3,144

Dickson, Tennessee

Score 6.69 / 10· population 56,729

Dickson County, a 30-minute drive from Nashville, had an estimated 57,641 residents in 2024; Charlotte is its seat and the town of Dickson its retail and industrial center. With a median home value of $306,400 in 2020-2024, near the US $332,700, the county's median property tax bill was $1,431, under half the national $3,119. Households headed by an unpartnered man or woman had 21.5 percent of its children in those years, against 27.0 percent statewide.

Sources
  • Dickson County is accessible via a short 30-minute drive from Nashville nashvillechamber.com
  • Census Bureau Vintage 2024 county population estimates: Dickson County, Tennessee, POPESTIMATE2024 = 57,641 www2.census.gov
  • Charlotte is the county seat tnecd.com
  • The town of Dickson is the county retail and industrial center tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, tables B25103 and B25077: Dickson County median real estate taxes paid $1,431 and median home value $306,400; United States $3,119 and $332,700 api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B09005: of 12,611 Dickson County children in households, 524 lived in a male-householder and 2,192 in a female-householder household with no spouse or partner present (2,716, 21.5 percent); Tennessee 76,533 + 344,958 of 1,563,223 (27.0 percent) api.censusreporter.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 President7.5
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax7.8

Environment

  1. Air quality5.9
  2. Floods / hurricanes5.5

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.4
  2. Life expectancy3.2
  3. Government employees6.2
  4. Single-parent households6.0

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