City · Houston County, Tennessee

Erin, Tennessee

Erin is a city in Houston County, Tennessee. It has 1,058 residents. Erin, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 18 out of 100 (very low), ranking #12,773 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #175 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), firearm deaths (low) and violent crime rate (low). It ranks worst on arts, entertainment and recreation (low), dentists (low) and depression (high).

18Very low

Quality-of-life score: #12,773 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #175 of 305 in TN
Population: 1,058 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 271.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 4724320

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety92#1,312/15,637
Economy11#13,916/15,631
Housing41#8,779/14,977
Health3#15,090/15,609
Healthcare13#13,685/15,650
Environment67#5,117/15,453
Education17#12,975/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,983/15,650
Community25#11,667/15,651
Leisure & amenities33#10,546/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Erin, Tennessee ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Houston 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

Job growth · high16.1%
100/100Tennessee -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataHouston County value
Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Tennessee 18.9 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataHouston County value
Violent crime rate · low59 /100k
96/100Tennessee 492 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureHouston County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Tennessee 7.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataHouston County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low111 min
92/100Tennessee 168 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHouston County value
Child care cost burden · low22.0%
88/100Tennessee 22.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHouston County value

Weaknesses

Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.0 /10k
1/100Tennessee 5.5 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHouston County value
Dentists · low12 /100k
1/100Tennessee 57 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHouston County value
Depression · high32.3%
2/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Frequent mental distress · high22.7%
3/100Tennessee 22.0%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Tennessee 4.3 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyHouston County value
Math scores · low2.50
4/100Tennessee 2.99United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHouston County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,654 (2015-2019) → 1,058 (2020-2024)
−36%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.2× (2015-2019) → 5.6× (2020-2024)
+152%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
44.8% (2015-2019) → 16.9% (2020-2024)
−28 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
0.6 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
65.8% (2015-2019) → 81.9% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
71.0% (2015-2019) → 83.5% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Erin, Tennessee improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Uninsured+11 points9.5% → 20.0%

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Erin, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.6 min2015-2019	25.1 min2020-2024	−3.4 min	Within the margin of error	82%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.2%2015-2019	19.4%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Broadband subscriptions	65.8%2015-2019	81.9%2020-2024	+16 points	Within the margin of error	83%
High school diploma or higher	71.0%2015-2019	83.5%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	98%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	5.6×2020-2024	+3.4×	Within the margin of error	1%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4622015-2019	0.4992020-2024	+0.038	Within the margin of error	22%
Median household income	$37,2222015-2019	$36,4882020-2024	−2%	Within the margin of error	6%
Poverty rate	22.5%2015-2019	21.9%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Rent as share of income	27.9%2015-2019	30.2%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Rent-burdened households	44.4%2015-2019	51.1%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.5%2015-2019	20.0%2020-2024	+11 points	Declined	3%

“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 Erin, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Erin, 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, Erin, Tennessee itself moved −8 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

1,058 residents (±248)

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

459 households (±106)

Erin, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k36%†165
$25k–50k19%†87
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

459 households (±106)

Erin, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own54%†246
Rent46%†213

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (+15.3 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

367 workers (±100)

Erin, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone81%†298
Carpool6.3%†23
Public transit

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 Houston County, the county holding most of Erin's residents.

Houston County has 106 employer establishments, 126 for every 10,000 residents (0.51× the US rate of 248; 0.60× Tennessee's), with 1,040 paid employees at an average annual pay of $40,322. The Census Bureau also counts 518 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 106; 518 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 126; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 1,040
Average annual pay: $40,322; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	15	17.9	0.97×About typical	113	$16,044	5
Specialty trade contractors	14	16.7	1.08×About typical	81	$48,605	97
Religious organizations	9	10.7	1.93×Too few to compare	86	$26,965	—
Building equipment contractors	8	9.5	1.58×Too few to compare	37	$49,838	25
Full-service restaurants	8	9.5	1.24×Too few to compare	43	$18,930	—
Ambulatory health care services	5	6	0.29×Too few to compare	62	$50,145	14
Gasoline stations	5	6	1.84×Too few to compare	36	$21,111	—
Limited-service restaurants	5	6	0.74×Too few to compare	65	$14,954	—
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	5	6	1.80×Too few to compare	17	$45,294	12
General merchandise stores	4	4.8	2.70×Too few to compare	33	$22,758	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	4	4.8	1.09×Too few to compare	15	$46,533	3
Automotive repair and maintenance	3	3.6	0.71×Too few to compare	9	$26,889	16

Rank places for an industry Open Houston County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 8,391 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 $127 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Erin, Tennessee: $0.12 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $127; −90% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.12; US $1,994
Sole-source: 100%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Department of Veterans Affairs$127100%

Top recipients

LP ERIN, LLC$127100%

Spending by fiscal year

16KFY2017
28.3KFY2018
17.6KFY2019
17.8KFY2020
25.9KFY2021
22.2KFY2022
25.7KFY2023
42.7KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities) · 6231$127100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Erin, Tennessee, so they do not add up across cities.

Erin, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Houston County, TN ($2,857 in FY2026), never added to them: 4.5% of that total.

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

See federal money in Houston 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.

Erin, 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.

Houston County25100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Houston County

Largest first.

Tennessee Ridge331,726

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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