Rank

351of 3,144

Perry, Tennessee

Score 7.11 / 10· population 8,891

Perry County sits about 90 miles southwest of Nashville, and its seat, Linden, got its hospital back on September 29, 2025, after five years without one. Buffalo Ridge runs the county's length; its eastern slope drains into the Buffalo River, a canoe and float stream. In 2024, 84 percent of presidential votes here went to Donald Trump, and from 2019 to 2023 about one child in nine lived with a single parent, against more than one in four statewide.

Sources
  • Linden, in rural Perry County, is about 90 miles southwest of Nashville; the county lost its only hospital in 2020 and was without one for five years newschannel5.com
  • Perry County Community Hospital, 2718 Squirrel Hollow Dr, Linden, reopened its doors on September 29, 2025, with a 24/7 emergency department perrycounty.health
  • Linden has been the Perry County seat since 1848; Buffalo Ridge traverses the entire length of the county, north to south; spurs carry water from its eastern slope into the Buffalo River, where people take canoe and float trips tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • November 5, 2024 presidential election, Perry County: Trump-Vance 3,139 votes of 3,716 cast for President (84.5 percent); Harris-Walz 558 sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com
  • County Health Rankings 2025 data: 11.2 percent of children in Perry County live in single-parent households (215 of 1,925); Tennessee 27.3 percent countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings children in single-parent households measure uses American Community Survey five-year estimates for 2019-2023 countyhealthrankings.org

v4 — beta, 30 October 2026, sourced values

Compare

Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)8.3
  2. 2A (state)10.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President8.5
  4. Sales tax1.4
  5. Property tax7.5

Environment

  1. Air quality6.2
  2. Floods / hurricanes5.3

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate10.0
  2. Life expectancy3.9
  3. Government employees3.2
  4. Single-parent households9.5

Neighbors