Rank

1114of 3,144

Wayne, Tennessee

Score 6.54 / 10· population 16,066

Wayne County gave Donald Trump 88% of its 2024 presidential vote, second only to Scott County among Tennessee's 95 counties. Its heavily wooded ridges and hollows sit on the western Highland Rim, 34 miles from Interstate 40. The school system employs about 400 people and county government 150, while the state prison at Clifton, a Tennessee River town, has about 230 workers on the payroll of its private operator, CoreCivic.

Sources
  • 2024 presidential result in Wayne County: Trump/Vance 6,016 of 6,831 votes (88.1%); second-highest Trump share of Tennessee's 95 counties after Scott County (89.6%) (computed from the certified precinct spreadsheet) sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com
  • Wayne County is on the western edge of the Highland Rim, a heavily wooded land of ridges and hollows; Clifton was founded on bluffs above the Tennessee River and has a large state prison tennesseeencyclopedia.net
  • I-40 is 34 miles away; largest employers include Wayne County Board of Education (about 400), South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton (about 230) and Wayne County Government (about 150) tnecd.com
  • South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton is on the Tennessee Department of Correction's state prison list and is managed by CoreCivic, a private corrections firm tn.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 President8.8
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax8.1

Environment

  1. Air quality6.3
  2. Floods / hurricanes4.9

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.4
  2. Life expectancy3.3
  3. Government employees0.6
  4. Single-parent households3.5

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