Rank

1062of 3,144

Jackson, Tennessee

Score 6.57 / 10· population 12,363

Jackson County lies in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland, crossed by the Cumberland and Roaring rivers, with its seat, Gainesboro, on bluffs above the Cumberland. From 2020 to 2024, 18.6% of its employed residents worked for government, against 13.7% statewide, and two in three left the county for work. Over the same years the median property tax bill was $710 a year, against $1,442 for Tennessee, and the median home was worth $155,500.

Sources
  • Jackson County is in the Upper Cumberland region of Middle Tennessee; Gainesboro, the county seat, sits high on the bluffs overlooking the Cumberland River uscountymaps.com
  • Both the Cumberland and Roaring Rivers cross Jackson County tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: 932 of 5,015 employed Jackson County residents (18.6%) work for local, state or federal government; Tennessee 459,590 of 3,362,616 (13.7%) api.censusreporter.org
  • Jackson County workers by place of work, 2024 ACS 5-year estimates: 33.4% within county of residence, 64.9% outside county of residence, 1.7% outside Tennessee tn.gov
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: median real estate taxes paid $710 in Jackson County, $1,442 in Tennessee; median home value $155,500 in Jackson County 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 President8.1
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax8.1

Environment

  1. Air quality6.0
  2. Floods / hurricanes6.3

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.3
  2. Life expectancy2.9
  3. Government employees1.3
  4. Single-parent households4.5

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