Rank

2200of 3,144

Lake, Tennessee

Score 5.88 / 10· population 6,347

Lake County fills Tennessee's northwest corner, flat farmland planted in cotton and soybeans between the Mississippi River and Reelfoot Lake, with Tiptonville as its seat. Tiptonville has the state's Northwest Correctional Complex, a prison for up to 1,776 men, and in 2020-2024, 23% of working residents held government jobs, against 14% statewide. In Lake County, 48% of children were in single-parent households in 2019-2023, and life expectancy came to 70.3 years in 2020-2022; Tennessee figures were 27% and 73.5.

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  • Lake County is in the northwest corner of Tennessee, bounded by Reelfoot Lake on the east and the Mississippi River on the west; its terrain is flat, its economy is based on agriculture with cotton and soybeans the chief crops, and Tiptonville is the county seat tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • The Northwest Correctional Complex is in Tiptonville (Lake County) and has operating capacity to house 1,776 male inmates tn.gov
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), class of worker: 381 of 1,646 employed civilians 16+ living in Lake County (23.1%) were local, state or federal government workers; Tennessee 459,590 of 3,362,616 (13.7%) api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: life expectancy 70.3 years in Lake County, 73.5 in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: 48.3% of children in Lake County live in single-parent households (Tennessee 27.3%) countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 data years: Life Expectancy 2020-2022 (NCHS mortality files); Children in Single-Parent Households 2019-2023 (ACS five-year estimates) 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 President7.7
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax6.4

Environment

  1. Air quality5.5
  2. Floods / hurricanes7.1

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.1
  2. Life expectancy0.0
  3. Government employees1.1
  4. Single-parent households0.3

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