Rank

696of 3,144

Wilson, Tennessee

Score 6.79 / 10· population 163,674

Wilson County is in Middle Tennessee on I-40 in the Nashville metro area, with Lebanon as its seat and Mt. Juliet its other large city. Amazon's Lebanon operation is the largest employer, and 12.8 percent of working residents held government jobs in 2024, below the 13.8 percent statewide. The median homeowner paid $1,818 in property tax that year, well under the $3,211 national median, and late-March 2021 storms brought 90 flood insurance claims and a federal disaster declaration.

Sources
  • Wilson County is in Middle Tennessee and the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin metro area; its seat is Lebanon, its listed cities are Lebanon (44,788), Mt. Juliet (42,073) and Watertown, and its interstate is I-40 tnecd.com
  • Amazon in Lebanon is first on the county's top-employer list, at an estimated 3,008 employees (list undated) tnecd.com
  • ACS 2024 1-year: 11,353 of 89,021 employed Wilson County residents (12.8%) were local, state, or federal government workers; Tennessee 486,655 of 3,525,120 (13.8%) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year: median real estate taxes paid were $1,818 in Wilson County and $3,211 in the US api.censusreporter.org
  • NFIP claims data: 90 flood insurance claims in Wilson County with dates of loss March 26 to 30, 2021 (51 on March 28, 35 on March 27) fema.gov
  • Wilson County was designated in FEMA DR-4601-TN (severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding; incident period March 25 to April 3, 2021; declared May 8, 2021) 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 President6.9
  4. Sales tax1.1
  5. Property tax7.9

Environment

  1. Air quality6.0
  2. Floods / hurricanes1.8

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.1
  2. Life expectancy6.5
  3. Government employees7.0
  4. Single-parent households7.2

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