Rank

1046of 3,144

Trousdale, Tennessee

Score 6.59 / 10· population 12,271

Trousdale County is Tennessee's smallest at 110 square miles, and Hartsville is its seat and only city. Seventeen percent of employed residents worked for a government in 2020-2024, three points over the state share, and close to one child in three lived in a single-parent household in 2019-2023, above Tennessee's 27 percent. From 1997 to 2016, 26 flood insurance claims were filed, and FEMA records show none since.

Sources
  • With 110 square miles of area, Trousdale is the smallest of Tennessee's ninety-five counties; Hartsville is the county seat tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • Hartsville is both the county seat and the only city in Trousdale County uscountymaps.com
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), class of worker: Trousdale County 895 of 5,308 employed residents (16.9%) work for local, state, or federal government; Tennessee 459,590 of 3,362,616 (13.7%) api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025: 32.5% of children in Trousdale 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
  • OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3 lists 26 claims for Trousdale County (county code 47169), with dates of loss from January 28, 1997 to July 7, 2016 fema.gov
  • The NFIP Redacted Claims v3 dataset holds flood insurance claims transactions; its last data refresh was September 9, 2026, so it shows no Trousdale claim with a loss after July 7, 2016 fema.gov

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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 President7.9
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax8.1

Environment

  1. Air quality5.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes8.7

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.5
  2. Life expectancy2.7
  3. Government employees2.0
  4. Single-parent households1.6

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