Rank

2109of 3,144

Montgomery, Tennessee

Score 5.95 / 10· population 239,872

Montgomery County's seat, Clarksville, is Tennessee's fifth-largest city and sits near where the Red River meets the Cumberland, in a metro area that reaches into Kentucky. The Army bought over 42,000 acres here for the post that became Fort Campbell, and the median age was 31.9 in 2020-2024. Clarksville alone logged 15 murders in each of 2020 and 2021, and the county's 2016-2022 homicide death rate, 8.9 per 100,000 a year, topped the national 6.5.

Sources
  • Clarksville was established near the confluence of the Cumberland and Red Rivers and is the fifth largest municipality in Tennessee tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • For Camp Campbell the Army purchased over forty-two thousand acres in Montgomery County; the post became Fort Campbell in 1950 tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Montgomery County is in the Middle Tennessee grand division; its seat is Clarksville; its metropolitan area is Clarksville, TN-KY tnecd.com
  • Montgomery County median age was 31.9 in the 2020-2024 five-year Census estimates (labelled "2024" by Data USA). datausa.io
  • Clarksville had 15 murders in 2020 and 15 in 2021, per the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Crime in Tennessee reports (Clarksville Now, Sept. 25, 2025) clarksvillenow.com
  • County Health Rankings 2025: Montgomery County had 132 homicide deaths, a rate of 8.9 per 100,000 population, against 6.5 for the United States. countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings homicides measure (deaths due to homicide per 100,000 population, NCHS mortality files) uses data from 2016-2022. 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 President5.9
  4. Sales tax1.4
  5. Property tax7.0

Environment

  1. Air quality6.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes1.6

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate5.8
  2. Life expectancy4.7
  3. Government employees2.9
  4. Single-parent households3.3

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