Rank

1005of 3,144

Giles, Tennessee

Score 6.61 / 10· population 30,721

Giles County is in Middle Tennessee on Interstate 65, and in 2021 Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, the county seat, became UT Southern. Frito-Lay and Marelli Automotive Lighting are its largest private employers, and Census surveys for 2020 to 2024 put 12.5 percent of working residents in government jobs, below the state's 13.7 percent. A typical homeowner's property tax bill, $989 a year in that survey, runs about $450 below the Tennessee median.

Sources
  • Giles County is in the Middle Tennessee grand division; county seat Pulaski; interstate access I-65 tnecd.com
  • Largest employers by estimated employees: Giles County Board of Education 650, Frito-Lay, Inc. 585, Marelli Automotive Lighting 400 (the two largest non-government employers on the list) tnecd.com
  • Pulaski is the county seat; Martin Methodist College was established there in 1872 tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • UT Southern, in Pulaski, was founded in 2021 and became the UT System's fourth undergraduate campus through the acquisition of Martin Methodist College utsouthern.edu
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), table B24080: local, state and federal government workers were 1,693 of 13,517 employed residents in Giles County (12.5%) and 459,590 of 3,362,616 in Tennessee (13.7%) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), table B25103: median real estate taxes paid were $989 in Giles County and $1,442 in Tennessee 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 President7.7
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax7.8

Environment

  1. Air quality6.1
  2. Floods / hurricanes3.9

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.7
  2. Life expectancy2.7
  3. Government employees8.3
  4. Single-parent households3.3

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