Rank

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Stewart, Tennessee

Score 6.97 / 10· population 14,222

In Stewart County, 15.5% of children live in single-parent households, against 27.3% statewide. Its 2025 property tax rate is $1.49 per $100 of assessed value, about $740 a year on a $200,000 home outside Dover and Cumberland City, and sales tax runs 9.25% to 9.75%. Dover, the seat, is on the Cumberland River, state and federal agencies control over 44% of the land, and the TVA power plant at Cumberland City is the top employer, with about 325 workers.

Sources
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: children in single-parent households are 15.5% in Stewart County and 27.3% in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • 2025 Stewart County property tax rate is $1.4862 per $100 of assessed value; Dover (total $2.2589) and Cumberland City (total $1.9854) add city rates. A $200,000 home outside the towns: $50,000 assessed x $1.4862/$100 = about $743 comptroller.tn.gov
  • Tennessee residential property is assessed at 25% of appraised value, and the tax is the assessed value times the rate per $100 comptroller.tn.gov
  • Stewart County: state sales tax rate 7.00%, county sales tax rate 2.25% - 2.75%; county property tax rate $1.49; county seat Dover; top employer Tennessee Valley Authority, est. 325 employees, Cumberland City tnecd.com
  • State and federal agencies control over 44 percent of the land in Stewart County; Dover, the county seat, was laid out on a 30-acre plot on the Cumberland River; TVA built a steam plant at Cumberland City in 1968 tennesseeencyclopedia.net

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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 President8.1
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax7.8

Environment

  1. Air quality5.9
  2. Floods / hurricanes7.7

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.6
  2. Life expectancy2.7
  3. Government employees3.2
  4. Single-parent households8.3

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