Rank

1238of 3,144

Monroe, Tennessee

Score 6.46 / 10· population 48,594

Monroe County is in Tennessee's southeastern corner on the North Carolina line; Madisonville is the seat, and Tellico Plains sits at the edge of the Cherokee National Forest. The median property tax bill on an owned home was $934 a year in 2020 to 2024 Census data, about two-thirds of the Tennessee median of $1,442. From 2020 to 2022 residents could expect to live 70.8 years on average, 2.7 fewer than Tennesseans overall.

Sources
  • Monroe County is located along the North Carolina border in the southeastern corner of Tennessee; Madisonville is the county seat tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Tellico Plains is located on the western boundary of the Cherokee National Forest tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Median real estate taxes paid: Monroe County $934, Tennessee $1,442 (ACS 2024 5-year, 2020 to 2024) api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: life expectancy 70.8 years in Monroe County, 73.5 in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings life expectancy measure uses National Center for Health Statistics mortality data for 2020-2022 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 President8.3
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax8.1

Environment

  1. Air quality6.1
  2. Floods / hurricanes3.5

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.5
  2. Life expectancy1.2
  3. Government employees3.3
  4. Single-parent households5.1

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