Rank

708of 3,144

Lewis, Tennessee

Score 6.79 / 10· population 13,066

Swiss settlers founded Hohenwald, the county seat, on the western Highland Rim, where the soil is thin and flinty. Lewis County's 2025 property tax rate, $1.0335 per $100 of assessed value, is fifth-lowest in Tennessee and comes to about $258 a year on a $100,000 home before city taxes. Meriwether Lewis is buried at a national monument on the Natchez Trace Parkway, which cuts through the county.

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  • Swiss settlers established New Switzerland and Hohenwald; county seat moved to Hohenwald in 1897; the county is on the western Highland Rim with thin and flinty soil; Lewis died at Grinder's Inn on the Natchez Trace and the Meriwether Lewis National Monument has his grave tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Hohenwald is the county seat; the Natchez Trace Parkway cuts through Lewis County uscountymaps.com
  • Lewis County 2025 county property tax rate is $1.0335 per $100 of assessed value, fifth-lowest of Tennessee's 95 counties (from the Comptroller's 2025 Tax Aggregate Report); properties inside city limits pay an additional municipal rate atlantictitlefirm.com
  • Residential property is assessed at 25% of appraised value and tax is assessed value times the rate per $100 (so a $100,000 home: $25,000 x $1.0335/100 = about $258) comptroller.tn.gov

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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 President8.2
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax8.4

Environment

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

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.4
  2. Life expectancy2.0
  3. Government employees1.2
  4. Single-parent households8.0

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