Rank

1142of 3,144

Fentress, Tennessee

Score 6.52 / 10· population 19,696

Fentress County is on the Cumberland Plateau, and Jamestown, its seat, is 88 miles from Knoxville and headquarters for the 127 Corridor Sale, billed as the world's longest yard sale. The county's only hospital, in Jamestown, closed in June 2019. From 2018 to 2022 the county lost an age-adjusted 29.5 residents per 100,000 a year to suicide, against 16.9 statewide, and on 2020 to 2022 death rates, life expectancy was 70.1 years, against 73.5 for the state.

Sources
  • Fentress County is located in northeast Middle Tennessee on the Cumberland Plateau; Jamestown is the county seat tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • 2026 Jamestown-Fentress County Community Data Profile: county seat Jamestown; distance from Knoxville 88 miles mtida.org
  • 2026 profile: Jamestown is the headquarters for the World's Longest Yard Sale, also known as the 127 Corridor Sale mtida.org
  • 2026 profile, community facilities: hospitals 0, hospital beds 0 mtida.org
  • Jamestown Regional Medical Center, the only hospital in Fentress County, has closed newschannel5.com
  • A sign on the Jamestown hospital building said it was closed as of June 13, 2019 claiborneprogress.net
  • County Health Rankings 2025 analytic data: suicides 29.5 per 100,000 in Fentress County and 16.9 in Tennessee; life expectancy 70.1 years in Fentress County and 73.5 in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 technical documentation: Suicides measure uses 2018-2022 data and is age-adjusted; Life Expectancy uses 2020-2022 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 President8.8
  4. Sales tax1.4
  5. Property tax8.7

Environment

  1. Air quality6.1
  2. Floods / hurricanes5.4

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.9
  2. Life expectancy0.5
  3. Government employees3.5
  4. Single-parent households2.4

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