Town · Greene County, Tennessee

Greeneville, Tennessee

Greeneville is a town in Greene County, Tennessee, part of the Greeneville, TN metro area. It has 15,646 residents. Greeneville, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 17 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,002 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #195 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on homicide rate (low), natural hazard risk (low) and mammography screening (high). It ranks worst on income inequality (Gini index) (high), broadband subscriptions (low) and depression (high).

17Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,002 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #195 of 305 in TN
Population: 15,646 (2020-2024)
Land area: 17 mi²
Density: 920.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 4730980

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety40#9,457/15,637
Economy5#14,821/15,631
Housing46#8,087/14,977
Health4#14,946/15,609
Healthcare25#11,794/15,650
Environment98#264/15,453
Education40#9,453/15,649
Infrastructure19#12,611/15,650
Community6#14,745/15,651
Leisure & amenities15#13,275/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Tennessee 7.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataGreene County value
Natural hazard risk · low4.8
92/100Tennessee 37.82025Federal Emergency Management AgencyGreene County value
Mammography screening · high54.0%
88/100Tennessee 46.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGreene County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Tennessee 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGreene County value
Average commute time · low18.6 min
86/100Tennessee 25.7 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Pharmacies · high2.3 /10k
84/100Tennessee 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsGreene County value

Weaknesses

Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.528
3/100Tennessee 0.476United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Broadband subscriptions · low80.8%
3/100Tennessee 89.2%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Depression · high30.5%
3/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Drug overdose deaths · high37.2 /100k
5/100Tennessee 27.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataGreene County value
Injury deaths · high143 /100k
5/100Tennessee 122 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGreene County value
Life expectancy · low71.8 yrs
7/100Tennessee 73.8 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGreene County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
47.1% (2015-2019) → 57.5% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedImproving
3.8 /1k (2021) → 5.4 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+42%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$37,121 (2015-2019) → $49,889 (2020-2024)
+34%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.5× (2015-2019) → 4.6× (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
74.8% (2015-2019) → 80.8% (2020-2024)
+6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
29.0% (2015-2019) → 34.7% (2020-2024)
+5.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

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, Greeneville, Tennessee improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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.

Improved2

Household income+34%$37,121 → $49,889
Broadband+6 points74.8% → 80.8%

Declined1

Price / income+1.1×3.5× → 4.6×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Greeneville, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.0 min2015-2019	18.6 min2020-2024	+0.6 min	Within the margin of error	40%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.7%2015-2019	26.8%2020-2024	+4.1 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Broadband subscriptions	74.8%2015-2019	80.8%2020-2024	+6 points	Improved	38%
Child poverty rate	22.3%2015-2019	19.5%2020-2024	−2.8 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Effective property tax rate	0.82%2015-2019	0.57%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	66%
High school diploma or higher	84.7%2015-2019	90.0%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Home price to income ratio	3.5×2015-2019	4.6×2020-2024	+1.1×	Declined	19%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5042015-2019	0.5282020-2024	+0.024	Within the margin of error	31%
Median household income	$37,1212015-2019	$49,8892020-2024	+34%	Improved	64%
Poverty rate	18.2%2015-2019	18.5%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Rent as share of income	29.0%2015-2019	34.7%2020-2024	+5.7 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Rent-burdened households	47.1%2015-2019	57.5%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	23%
Unemployment rate	5.0%2015-2019	8.4%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.5%2015-2019	8.8%2020-2024	−2.8 points	Within the margin of error	75%

“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 Greeneville, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Greeneville, 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, Greeneville, Tennessee itself moved −5.1 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

15,646 residents (±30)

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

6,270 households (±485)

Greeneville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k28%1,753
$25k–50k22%1,396
$50k–75k17%†1,058

Homes

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

Owners and renters

6,270 households (±485)

Greeneville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own63%3,951
Rent37%2,319

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+9.0 points).

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

6,056 workers (±435)

Greeneville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone79%4,796
Carpool8.6%†523
Public transit0.2%†13

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 Greeneville, TN

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 Greene County, the county holding most of Greeneville's residents.

Greene County has 1,257 employer establishments, 173 for every 10,000 residents (0.70× the US rate of 248; 0.83× Tennessee's), with 23,957 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,881. The Census Bureau also counts 5,044 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,257; 5,044 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 173; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 23,957
Average annual pay: $46,881; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	112	15.4	0.84×About typical	2,076	$18,341	28
Ambulatory health care services	98	13.5	0.65×Fewer than typical	980	$53,218	144
Specialty trade contractors	84	11.6	0.75×Fewer than typical	524	$52,286	649
Limited-service restaurants	58	8	1.00×About typical	1,448	$17,842	5
Religious organizations	58	8	1.44×More than typical	345	$19,412	—
Gasoline stations	52	7.2	2.21×More than typical	459	$25,168	—
Full-service restaurants	44	6.1	0.79×Fewer than typical	553	$19,984	14
Lessors of real estate	38	5.2	0.43×Fewer than typical	184	$40,897	331
Offices of physicians	33	4.6	0.70×Fewer than typical	250	$67,152	31
Services to buildings and dwellings	33	4.6	0.67×Fewer than typical	164	$33,524	505
Automotive repair and maintenance	30	4.1	0.82×About typical	169	$49,515	79
Truck transportation	29	4	0.79×Fewer than typical	2,096	$67,085	146

Rank places for an industry Open Greene County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 72,518 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 $142K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Greeneville, Tennessee: $9.08 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $142K; −95% vs FY2025
Per resident: $9.08; US $1,994
Sole-source: 7.5%; US 30%
Single offer: 20%; 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

Federal Highway Administration$40.8K29%
Public Buildings Service$16.5K12%
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$13.1K9.2%
Department of the Navy$12.6K8.9%
National Park Service$12.4K8.7%
Department of Veterans Affairs$8,0195.6%
Defense Logistics Agency$7,1715.1%
Agricultural Research Service$6,5774.6%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

9MFY2017
8.2MFY2018
7MFY2019
7.8MFY2020
9.4MFY2021
9.6MFY2022
6.9MFY2023
5.4M

Top industries (NAICS)

Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$62.6K44%
Highway, street, and bridge construction · 2373$40.8K29%
Facilities support services · 5612$15.8K11%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$10.9K7.7%
Nonferrous metal (except aluminum) production and processing · 3314$5,4223.8%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364

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 Greeneville, Tennessee, so they do not add up across cities.

Greeneville, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Greene County, TN ($3.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 3.7% of that total.

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

See federal money in Greene 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.

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

House

Diana HarshbargerR-TN-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.3%

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.

Greene County25100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Greeneville, TN19

Other cities and towns in Greene County

Largest first.

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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