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Sumner, Tennessee

Score 6.59 / 10· population 207,994

Gallatin commuters in Sumner County reach Nashville on State Route 386 and Interstate 65, or on WeGo Route 87, a weekday express bus that also stops in Hendersonville. The 2026 sales tax is at least 9.25 percent, 2.25 points of it local, and in 2019 to 2023 about 20 percent of children lived in single-parent homes, against 27 percent statewide. Floodwater kept rising overnight on May 8, 2024, and county emergency director Ken Weidner reported many roadways affected.

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  • Most Gallatin-to-Nashville commuters take State Route 386 (Vietnam Veterans Boulevard) west to Interstate 65 south toward Nashville mygallatin.com
  • WeGo Route 87 provides weekday express bus service between Gallatin, Hendersonville and Nashville mygallatin.com
  • The Sumner County sales tax rate is 2.25 percent; the Tennessee rate is 7 percent; the minimum combined 2026 sales tax rate for Sumner County is 9.25 percent avalara.com
  • County Health Rankings 2025 data: 19.7 percent of children in Sumner County live in single-parent households; 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
  • In severe weather Wednesday into overnight Thursday (May 8-9, 2024), Sumner County Emergency Management Agency director Ken Weidner wrote that water continued to rise throughout the night and many roadways in Sumner County were affected by flooding wsmv.com

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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 President7.0
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax7.7

Environment

  1. Air quality5.5
  2. Floods / hurricanes1.1

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.7
  2. Life expectancy6.0
  3. Government employees5.9
  4. Single-parent households6.4

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