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Grundy, Tennessee

Score 6.45 / 10· population 13,955

Grundy County sits on the Cumberland Plateau in southern Tennessee, with Altamont, the seat, at 1,800 feet and Tracy City, Monteagle and Coalmont among its towns. Overdoses killed 25 residents in 2020 through 2022, 61 per 100,000 a year to Tennessee's 51, and life expectancy then was 69.7 years, 3.8 under the state's; 23 percent of adults smoked in 2022. Trump's 5,334 votes in 2024 outnumbered Harris's 948 more than five to one, by the state's official count.

Sources
  • Grundy County is in the south of Tennessee in the Cumberland Plateau uscountymaps.com
  • The county seat is Altamont, at 1,800 feet above sea level; the county's places include Altamont, Tracy City, Monteagle, Coalmont, Gruetli-Laager and Palmer uscountymaps.com
  • 2025 County Health Rankings, data years 2020-2022: life expectancy 69.67 years in Grundy County, 73.51 in Tennessee, a gap of 3.8 years countyhealthrankings.org
  • 2025 County Health Rankings, data years 2020-2022: 25 drug overdose deaths in Grundy County, a rate of 61.1 per 100,000, against 51.0 in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • 2025 County Health Rankings, data year 2022: 23% of Grundy County adults reported currently smoking, against 19.2% in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • Tennessee Secretary of State official results, November 5, 2024 general election, Grundy County president: Trump 5,334, Harris 948 (a ratio of 5.6 to 1), five other candidates 46, for 6,328 votes in all (Trump 84.3%) sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com

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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 President8.4
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax7.8

Environment

  1. Air quality6.0
  2. Floods / hurricanes5.5

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate6.8
  2. Life expectancy0.1
  3. Government employees3.1
  4. Single-parent households5.9

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