City · Montgomery County, Tennessee

Clarksville, Tennessee

Clarksville is a city in Montgomery County, Tennessee, part of the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area. It has 176,456 residents. Clarksville, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 25 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,685 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #130 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on median Air Quality Index (low), reading scores (high) and new homes permitted (high). It ranks worst on public libraries (low), hospital quality rating (low) and voter turnout (low).

25Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,685 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #130 of 305 in TN
Population: 176,456 (2020-2024)
Land area: 100 mi²
Density: 1,762.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 4715160

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety15#13,366/15,637
Economy44#8,676/15,631
Housing74#3,842/14,977
Health17#13,023/15,609
Healthcare17#13,028/15,650
Environment49#7,842/15,453
Education78#3,375/15,649
Infrastructure44#8,692/15,650
Community1#15,470/15,651
Leisure & amenities13#13,672/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Clarksville, Tennessee ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Montgomery County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Median Air Quality Index · low32
92/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMontgomery County value
Reading scores · high3.35
91/100Tennessee 2.99United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMontgomery County value
New homes permitted · high10.9 /1k
89/100Tennessee 5.7 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Child care cost burden · low22.3%
87/100Tennessee 22.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMontgomery County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.384
86/100Tennessee 0.476United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
High school diploma or higher · high94.1%
82/100Tennessee 90.1%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Weaknesses

Public libraries · low0.0 /10k
0/100Tennessee 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesMontgomery County value
Hospital quality rating · low1.0
1/100Tennessee 3.1United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMontgomery County value
Voter turnout · low50.2%
4/100Tennessee 58.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionMontgomery County value
Firearm deaths · high24.6 /100k
7/100Tennessee 18.9 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMontgomery County value
Depression · high28.5%
8/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Pharmacies · low0.9 /10k
10/100Tennessee 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMontgomery County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
152,934 (2015-2019) → 176,456 (2020-2024)
+15%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
20.0 /1k (2021) → 10.9 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−45%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
86.6% (2015-2019) → 93.7% (2020-2024)
+7.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.9× (2015-2019) → 3.8× (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Median household incomeImproving
$53,604 (2015-2019) → $69,303 (2020-2024)
+29%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
27.6% (2015-2019) → 29.9% (2020-2024)
+2.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Clarksville, Tennessee improved on 6 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 4. 4 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved6

Unemployment−1.4 points6.9% → 5.5%
Inequality−0.0230.408 → 0.384
Poverty−2.1 points14.5% → 12.3%
Household income+29%$53,604 → $69,303
Bachelor's++2.4 points27.6% → 29.9%

Declined4

Price / income+0.9×2.9× → 3.8×
Commute+2.3 min24.7 min → 27.0 min
Uninsured+1.6 points9.1% → 10.7%
Transit use−0.5 points0.9% → 0.4%

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Clarksville, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.7 min2015-2019	27.0 min2020-2024	+2.3 min	Declined	25%
Bachelor's degree or higher	27.6%2015-2019	29.9%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Improved	46%
Broadband subscriptions	86.6%2015-2019	93.7%2020-2024	+7.1 points	Improved	44%
Child poverty rate	18.5%2015-2019	16.4%2020-2024	−2 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Effective property tax rate	0.88%2015-2019	0.63%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	68%
High school diploma or higher	92.9%2015-2019	94.1%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	48%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	3.8×2020-2024	+0.9×	Declined	25%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4082015-2019	0.3842020-2024	−0.023	Improved	70%
Median household income	$53,6042015-2019	$69,3032020-2024	+29%	Improved	54%
Poverty rate	14.5%2015-2019	12.3%2020-2024	−2.1 points	Improved	63%
Public transit commuters	0.9%2015-2019	0.4%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Declined	21%
Rent as share of income	28.4%2015-2019	29.1%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Rent-burdened households	45.8%2015-2019	47.7%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Unemployment rate	6.9%2015-2019	5.5%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Improved	75%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.1%2015-2019	10.7%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Declined	29%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Clarksville, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Clarksville, Tennessee in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Clarksville, Tennessee itself moved −0.4 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

176,456 residents (±45)

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

67,832 households (±752)

Clarksville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k13%8,590
$25k–50k20%13,822
$50k–75k21%14,308

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

67,832 households (±752)

Clarksville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own56%37,683
Rent44%30,149

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+2.5 points).

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

84,497 workers (±1,634)

Clarksville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone80%67,339
Carpool8.5%7,164
Public transit0.4%†354

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Clarksville, TN-KY

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Montgomery County, the county holding most of Clarksville's residents.

Montgomery County has 3,428 employer establishments, 143 for every 10,000 residents (0.57× the US rate of 248; 0.68× Tennessee's), with 53,777 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,717. The Census Bureau also counts 17,515 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,428; 17,515 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 143; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 53,777
Average annual pay: $44,717; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Montgomery County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	383	15.9	0.87×About typical	8,479	$19,543	95
Ambulatory health care services	296	12.3	0.59×Fewer than typical	3,537	$59,870	680
Specialty trade contractors	222	9.2	0.60×Fewer than typical	1,785	$57,627	1,259
Lessors of real estate	177	7.4	0.60×Fewer than typical	672	$43,512	1,541
Limited-service restaurants	175	7.3	0.91×About typical	4,230	$16,849	47
Full-service restaurants	154	6.4	0.83×About typical	3,503	$23,291	34
Religious organizations	116	4.8	0.87×About typical	895	$22,161	—
Construction of buildings	113	4.7	0.62×Fewer than typical	714	$67,148	496
Services to buildings and dwellings	107	4.5	0.66×Fewer than typical	590	$36,442	1,213
Automotive repair and maintenance	104	4.3	0.86×About typical	868	$42,959	182
Building equipment contractors	100	4.2	0.69×Fewer than typical	913	$59,455	268
Offices of other health practitioners	90	3.7	0.62×Fewer than typical	762	$41,239	313

Rank places for an industry Open Montgomery County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 240,192 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $71.5M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Clarksville, Tennessee: $405 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $71.5M; −30% vs FY2025
Per resident: $405; US $1,995
Sole-source: 78%; US 30%
Single offer: 6.4%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

U.S. Special Operations Command$55.3M77%
Department of the Army$11.1M15%
Defense Logistics Agency$4.7M6.5%
Department of Veterans Affairs$429.7K0.6%
Federal Emergency Management Agency$81.5K0.1%
Federal Acquisition Service$14.1K0.0%
Department of Defense Education Activity$13.6K0.0%
Defense Information Systems Agency$3,6160.0%

Top recipients

BOEING SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT SUPPORT, LLC$54.8M77%
CH2M HILL CONSTRUCTORS, INC.$4.5M6.3%
GMH-C JV, LLC$4.4M6.2%
INTEC GROUP LLC$3M4.1%
QBS INC$1.3M1.8%

Spending by fiscal year

45.7MFY2017
37.9MFY2018
47.2MFY2019
133.3MFY2020
25.5MFY2021
29.7MFY2022
65.3MFY2023
105.1M

Top industries (NAICS)

Support activities for air transportation · 4881$54.8M77%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$9M13%
Water, sewage and other systems · 2213$4.5M6.3%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$753.6K1.1%
Highway, street, and bridge construction · 2373$581.9K0.8%
Other support services · 5619$475.2K

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Clarksville, Tennessee

CONDUCT INSPECTION, CLEANING, DEMOLITION, AND INSTALLATION OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS WITHIN THE FACILITY.$2M
GMH-C JV, LLC· Montgomery County, TN· Construction & real property· Apr 27, 2026 – Apr 27, 2026· W9124826FA060
DEMOLITION AND REPAIR TASKS ON DRONE NET INFRASTRUCTURE$880.1K
GMH-C JV, LLC· Montgomery County, TN· Construction & real property· Mar 24, 2026 – May 12, 2026· W9124826FA048
REPLACE ROOF AND UNITS ON BLDG 6761$753.2K
GMH-C JV, LLC· Montgomery County, TN· Construction & real property· May 1, 2026 – May 1, 2026· W9124826FA094
REPLACE THE EXISTING AIR HANDLER UNITS AND CONDENSING UNITS

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Clarksville, Tennessee, so they do not add up across cities.

Clarksville, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Montgomery County, TN ($155.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 46% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Clarksville is mostly in Montgomery County.

See federal money in Montgomery County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Clarksville, Tennessee is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Matt Van EppsR-TN-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.0%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Montgomery County44100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Clarksville, TN-KY27

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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