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Rutherford, Tennessee

Score 6.50 / 10· population 367,101

Rutherford County is part of the Nashville metro area on I-24, with Murfreesboro as its seat and Nissan's plant in Smyrna as its largest employer. Storms and flooding in early May 2010 brought a federal disaster declaration, and the county had 169 flood insurance claims for losses on May 1 and 2 alone. Life expectancy was 76.0 years in 2020 to 2022, about two and a half years longer than the state figure.

Sources
  • Rutherford County is in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin metro area; its county seat is Murfreesboro and its interstate is I-24 tnecd.com
  • Nissan North America in Smyrna is first on the county's top-employer list, at an estimated 7,400 employees (list undated) tnecd.com
  • Rutherford County was designated in FEMA DR-1909-TN (severe storms, flooding, straight-line winds, and tornadoes; incident began Apr 30, 2010; declared May 4, 2010) fema.gov
  • NFIP claims data: 169 flood insurance claims in Rutherford County with dates of loss May 1 (101) and May 2 (68), 2010 fema.gov
  • County Health Rankings 2025: Rutherford County life expectancy 76.0 years; Tennessee 73.5 years countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings life expectancy measure uses 2020-2022 NCHS mortality data 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 President6.0
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax7.6

Environment

  1. Air quality5.5
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.7

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.3
  2. Life expectancy6.6
  3. Government employees8.5
  4. Single-parent households6.0

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