Rank

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Union, Tennessee

Score 6.83 / 10· population 20,741

Union County is a commuter county north of Knoxville: its seat, Maynardville, is 15 miles from downtown, and 63.6% of working residents had jobs outside the county in 2020-2024. The median homeowner's property tax bill in those years was $752, about half Tennessee's $1,442, and only 12.9% of children lived with a single parent in 2019-2023, against 27.3% statewide. The drug overdose death rate in 2020-2022 was 89 per 100,000, against Tennessee's 51.

Sources
  • Maynardville is located 15 miles north of downtown Knoxville maynardvilletn.com
  • Liberty, near the center of the new county, became the Union County seat in 1850 and was later renamed Maynardville tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates (table B08007): of 8,758 Union County workers 16 and over, 5,364 worked outside the county in Tennessee and 210 outside the state, 5,574 in all (63.6%) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates (table B25103): median real estate taxes paid by owner-occupied housing units are $752 in Union County and $1,442 in Tennessee api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: children in single-parent households are 12.9% in Union County and 27.3% in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings release used 2019-2023 data for children in single-parent households countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: drug overdose deaths per 100,000 population are 89.0 in Union County and 51.0 in Tennessee countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings release used 2020-2022 data for drug overdose deaths 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 President8.5
  4. Sales tax1.6
  5. Property tax8.7

Environment

  1. Air quality5.3
  2. Floods / hurricanes7.4

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.7
  2. Life expectancy0.2
  3. Government employees3.1
  4. Single-parent households9.2

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