Rank

1596of 3,144

McNairy, Tennessee

Score 6.27 / 10· population 26,163

Selmer, the McNairy County seat, sits about 90 miles east of Memphis and 18 miles north of the Mississippi line, and its plants build GE Monogram refrigerators and ABB busways. Nearly one in five employed residents, 19.5%, worked for a government in 2020-2024, against 13.7% statewide. The 2018-2022 suicide rate, 29.0 per 100,000, was 1.7 times Tennessee's, and life expectancy for 2020-2022 was 70.3 years to the state's 73.5.

Sources
  • Selmer is the county seat of McNairy County, around 90 miles east of Memphis and around 18 miles north of the Mississippi state line police.selmer-tn.gov
  • Monogram, a GE Appliance company, produces refrigerators and air conditioners at its Selmer plant; ABB's Selmer location has made busway for more than 50 years mcnairycountyecd.com
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), class of worker: 2,072 of 10,609 employed civilians 16+ living in McNairy County (19.5%) were local, state or federal government workers; Tennessee 13.7% api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: suicides 29.0 per 100,000 in McNairy County, 16.9 in Tennessee (ratio 1.7) countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: life expectancy 70.3 years in McNairy County, 73.5 in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 data years: Suicides 2018-2022; Life Expectancy 2020-2022 (NCHS mortality files) 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 President8.4
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax8.1

Environment

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

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate5.7
  2. Life expectancy0.8
  3. Government employees0.5
  4. Single-parent households7.4

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