Rank

636of 3,144

Macon, Tennessee

Score 6.84 / 10· population 26,793

Red Boiling Springs grew up around mineral springs as a resort town, and three of its historic hotels still stand. Eight of the ten largest employers, including Cavco Homes, the biggest private one, are in Lafayette, the county seat; the county lies on the Eastern Highland Rim at the Kentucky line, within the Nashville metro area. In 2024, 86.7 percent of Macon County's presidential votes went to Donald Trump.

Sources
  • Red Boiling Springs grew around boiling springs into a mineral-springs resort; three historic hotels remain; Macon County is on the Eastern Highland Rim of the Upper Cumberland and borders Kentucky; Lafayette is the county seat tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Macon County is in the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin metro area; eight of its ten top employers are in Lafayette, including Cavco Homes (225), the largest non-government employer on the list tnecd.com
  • 2024 certified results: Macon County Trump 8,958 of 10,333 presidential votes (86.7%) sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com

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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 President8.7
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax8.8

Environment

  1. Air quality5.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes6.9

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.7
  2. Life expectancy2.1
  3. Government employees3.8
  4. Single-parent households4.8

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