Rank

927of 3,144

Lincoln, Tennessee

Score 6.65 / 10· population 36,169

The Elk River runs southwest through Lincoln County in southern Middle Tennessee, and Frito-Lay employs 1,008 people in Fayetteville, the county seat. Of the 16,128 presidential votes cast in 2024, 81.9% went to Donald Trump, against 64.2% statewide. The owner of a $229,700 house, the 2020-2024 median, owes the county about $1,090 a year in property tax, and sales tax at the register is 9.5%.

Sources
  • Lincoln County is in southern Middle Tennessee, and the Elk River runs through it from the northeast to the southwest. tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Fayetteville is the county seat; the top county employer is Frito-Lay North America, with an estimated 1,008 employees in Fayetteville. tnecd.com
  • Official November 5, 2024 general election results by county, Tennessee Secretary of State: Lincoln County cast 16,128 presidential votes, 13,208 (81.9%) for Donald Trump; statewide Trump won 1,966,865 of 3,063,942 votes (64.2%). sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com
  • Lincoln County's property tax rate is $1.90 (Fayetteville adds $1.37, Petersburg $0.83, Ardmore $0.16); residential property is assessed at 25%; the state sales tax is 7.00% and the local option sales tax rate is 2.50%, for 9.5% combined. tnecd.com
  • Tennessee property tax rates are set per $100 of assessed value, and a house is assessed at 25% of appraised value; tax = assessed value / 100 x rate. Applied here: $229,700 x 25% = $57,425 assessed; $57,425 / 100 x $1.90 = about $1,091. comptroller.tn.gov
  • Median value of owner-occupied housing units in Lincoln County was $229,700 (ACS 2024 5-year estimates, 2020-2024). 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 President8.2
  4. Sales tax1.4
  5. Property tax8.0

Environment

  1. Air quality5.9
  2. Floods / hurricanes4.3

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.1
  2. Life expectancy3.1
  3. Government employees2.6
  4. Single-parent households4.9

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