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Gibson, Tennessee

Score 6.09 / 10· population 51,045

Gibson County is in West Tennessee, with Trenton as its seat, Interstate 40 about 12 miles off and the Jackson airport 33 miles away. About one in eight working residents held a government job in 2020 to 2024 Census data, a smaller share than Tennessee's 13.7 percent. The county recorded 36 homicides from 2016 to 2022, a rate of 10.4 per 100,000 against 6.5 nationally, and life expectancy in 2020 to 2022 was 70.3 years, three years below Tennessee's.

Sources
  • Gibson County is a West Tennessee county created from Chickasaw lands in the Jackson Purchase tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • County seat Trenton; interstate access I-40 (12 miles); nearest commercial service airport Jackson Regional Airport, 33 miles tnecd.com
  • Government workers (local, state and federal) were 2,682 of 22,287 employed residents in Gibson County (12.0%) versus 459,590 of 3,362,616 in Tennessee (13.7%) (ACS 2024 5-year, 2020 to 2024) api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: Gibson County homicide rate 10.4 per 100,000 (36 deaths), United States 6.5; life expectancy 70.3 years in Gibson County, 73.5 in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings homicide measure uses NCHS mortality data for 2016-2022; life expectancy uses 2020-2022 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 President7.6
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax7.0

Environment

  1. Air quality5.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes4.6

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate4.8
  2. Life expectancy0.9
  3. Government employees8.5
  4. Single-parent households2.1

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