Rank

2556of 3,144

Hardeman, Tennessee

Score 5.45 / 10· population 25,567

Hardeman County is in West Tennessee, with Bolivar as its seat, where the state runs the 150-bed Western Mental Health Institute; from 2020 to 2024, 20.3 percent of working residents held government jobs, against 13.7 percent statewide. In those years 47 percent of households with children were headed by a single parent. The homicide rate from 2016 to 2022 was 17 per 100,000 residents a year, against 9.6 statewide.

Sources
  • Bolivar and Hardeman County are in the heart of West Tennessee; Bolivar is the county seat, and other municipalities include Grand Junction, Middleton and Whiteville hardemancountychamber.com
  • Western Mental Health Institute is located in Bolivar, serves 24 Tennessee counties and is a 150-bed facility hardemancountychamber.com
  • The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services operates four Regional Mental Health Institutes, located in Bolivar, Chattanooga, Memphis and Nashville tn.gov
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year table B24080: 1,854 of 9,126 employed Hardeman County residents (20.3%) were local, state or federal government workers; Tennessee 459,590 of 3,362,616 (13.7%) api.censusreporter.org
  • Single-parent households with children were 47.36% of households with children in Hardeman County, TN (ACS 5-year estimate for 2020-2024, FRED series S1101SPHOUSE047069) fred.stlouisfed.org
  • 2025 County Health Rankings, data years 2016-2022: homicide rate 17.0 per 100,000 in Hardeman County, 9.6 in Tennessee 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 President6.2
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax7.1

Environment

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

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate3.6
  2. Life expectancy1.1
  3. Government employees2.6
  4. Single-parent households0.5

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