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Dyer, Tennessee

Score 5.98 / 10· population 36,498

Dyer County meets the Mississippi River at the village of Heloise, and I-155 links the county seat, Dyersburg, with Missouri. Homicides averaged 9.6 per 100,000 residents a year over 2016-2022, against 6.5 nationally, and life expectancy for 2020-2022 was 69.9 years, under the state's 73.5. Single parents headed the households of 40% of children in 2019-2023, compared with 27% statewide.

Sources
  • Heloise is Dyer County's only Mississippi River village. tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Interstate 155 links Dyersburg with Missouri. tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Dyersburg is the county seat. tnecd.com
  • In the 2025 County Health Rankings, Dyer County had 9.6 homicides per 100,000 people (United States 6.5), life expectancy of 69.9 years (Tennessee 73.5), and 40.2% of children in single-parent households (Tennessee 27.3%). countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings homicide measure (deaths due to homicide per 100,000 population) uses 2016-2022 data. countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings life expectancy measure uses 2020-2022 data. countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings single-parent households measure (children in households headed by a single parent) uses 2019-2023 data. 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 President8.1
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax7.2

Environment

  1. Air quality6.5
  2. Floods / hurricanes4.8

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate4.2
  2. Life expectancy0.8
  3. Government employees5.7
  4. Single-parent households0.7

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