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Fayette, Tennessee

Score 6.39 / 10· population 44,175

Fayette County is rural farm country taking on suburban growth from Memphis, and its property tax comes to about $233 a year on a $100,000 house outside town limits. In 2020 to 2024, 65% of working residents commuted out of the county and 11% held government jobs, against 14% statewide. The county had 32 homicides from 2016 to 2022, a yearly rate of 11 per 100,000, above Tennessee's 9.6.

Sources
  • Fayette County remains a rural, agricultural area and faces suburban sprawl from nearby Memphis. tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • The Fayette County property tax rate is $0.9310 per $100 of assessed value. fayettetn.us
  • Residential and farm real property is assessed at 25% of appraised value, and property inside a city also pays the city rate; so a $100,000 house outside town limits owes about $233 a year in county tax (100,000 x 0.25 x 0.00931 = $232.75). fayettetn.us
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: of 20,082 workers living in Fayette County, 12,972 (65%) worked outside the county (12,323 elsewhere in Tennessee, 649 out of state). api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: 2,361 of 20,602 employed residents (11.5%) were local, state or federal government workers, against 459,590 of 3,362,616 (13.7%) in Tennessee. api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: Fayette County had 32 homicides, a rate of 11.06 per 100,000 a year, against 9.59 for Tennessee. countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings homicide measure uses data from 2016-2022. 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 President7.1
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax8.4

Environment

  1. Air quality5.6
  2. Floods / hurricanes4.8

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate3.2
  2. Life expectancy5.2
  3. Government employees8.7
  4. Single-parent households4.3

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