Rank

1446of 3,144

Scott, Tennessee

Score 6.36 / 10· population 22,171

Scott County is on the northern Cumberland Plateau along the Kentucky line, about 70 miles north of Knoxville, with the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area on its western edge. Government jobs went to 21 percent of working residents in 2020-2024, versus 14 percent statewide, and Oneida has its own school district apart from the county's. More than a third of children, 36 percent, lived in single-parent households in 2019-2023; the state figure was 27 percent.

Sources
  • Scott County is located on the northern Cumberland Plateau, along the Tennessee-Kentucky border; the University of Tennessee is 70 miles south in Knoxville; the 115,000-acre Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is in the county's west scottcounty.com
  • The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is in Scott County's westernmost section tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • The Scott County School System and Oneida Special School District provide primary and secondary education scottcounty.com
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), class of worker: Scott County 1,834 of 8,794 employed residents (20.9%) work for local, state, or federal government (1,283 local); Tennessee 459,590 of 3,362,616 (13.7%) api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: 35.6% of children in Scott County live in single-parent households, Tennessee 27.3% countyhealthrankings.org
  • In County Health Rankings 2025, Children in Single-Parent Households uses American Community Survey five-year estimates for 2019-2023 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 President9.0
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax8.0

Environment

  1. Air quality6.0
  2. Floods / hurricanes5.6

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.2
  2. Life expectancy1.3
  3. Government employees0.5
  4. Single-parent households1.2

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