City · Loudon County, Tennessee

Lenoir City, Tennessee

Lenoir City is a city in Loudon County, Tennessee, part of the Knoxville, TN metro area. It has 11,110 residents. Lenoir City, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 33 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,564 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #87 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on mammography screening (high), child care cost burden (low) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on drug overdose deaths (high), depression (high) and suicide rate (high).

33Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,564 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #87 of 305 in TN
Population: 11,110 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 1,288.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 4741760

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.

Safety51#7,730/15,637
Economy33#10,426/15,631
Housing60#5,932/14,977
Health6#14,743/15,609
Healthcare36#9,948/15,650
Environment79#3,232/15,453
Education43#8,959/15,649
Infrastructure24#11,943/15,650
Community56#6,928/15,651
Leisure & amenities7#14,484/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Mammography screening · high58.0%
97/100Tennessee 46.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLoudon County value
Child care cost burden · low20.5%
93/100Tennessee 22.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLoudon County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.41%
93/100Tennessee 0.52%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Job growth · high2.8%
93/100Tennessee -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataLoudon County value
Property crime rate · low473 /100k
91/100Tennessee 1,637 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationLoudon County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Tennessee 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLoudon County value

Weaknesses

Drug overdose deaths · high38.0 /100k
4/100Tennessee 27.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataLoudon County value
Depression · high29.8%
4/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Suicide rate · high28.1 /100k
5/100Tennessee 18.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataLoudon County value
Mental health providers · low55 /100k
6/100Tennessee 212 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLoudon County value
Frequent mental distress · high21.3%
9/100Tennessee 22.0%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Distance to an Amtrak station · high98 mi
10/100Tennessee 93 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLoudon County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
9,162 (2015-2019) → 11,110 (2020-2024)
+21%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
48.6 /1k (2021) → 5.7 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−88%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$39,867 (2015-2019) → $67,259 (2020-2024)
+69%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
42.1% (2015-2019) → 54.2% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.8% (2015-2019) → 87.5% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
27.9% (2015-2019) → 38.5% (2020-2024)
+11 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, Lenoir City, Tennessee improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 11 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.

Improved2

Household income+69%$39,867 → $67,259
Broadband+11 points76.8% → 87.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Lenoir City, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.9 min2015-2019	21.5 min2020-2024	+0.6 min	Within the margin of error	41%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.0%2015-2019	19.3%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Broadband subscriptions	76.8%2015-2019	87.5%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	63%
Child poverty rate	34.5%2015-2019	27.0%2020-2024	−7.5 points	Within the margin of error	76%
Effective property tax rate	0.58%2015-2019	0.41%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	52%
High school diploma or higher	78.9%2015-2019	87.4%2020-2024	+8.5 points	Within the margin of error	93%
Home price to income ratio	3.1×2015-2019	3.8×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	41%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4502015-2019	0.4232020-2024	−0.028	Within the margin of error	73%
Median household income	$39,8672015-2019	$67,2592020-2024	+69%	Improved	94%
Poverty rate	21.8%2015-2019	17.0%2020-2024	−4.8 points	Within the margin of error	79%
Rent as share of income	27.9%2015-2019	38.5%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Rent-burdened households	42.1%2015-2019	54.2%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	16.3%2015-2019	13.9%2020-2024	−2.4 points	Within the margin of error	72%

“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 Lenoir City, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lenoir City, 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, Lenoir City, Tennessee itself moved −2.6 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

11,110 residents (±24)

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

4,536 households (±309)

Lenoir City, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k19%†868
$25k–50k18%†839
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,536 households (±309)

Lenoir City, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own64%2,889
Rent36%1,647

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+12.8 points).

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

4,862 workers (±530)

Lenoir City, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone79%3,834
Carpool8.4%†410
Public transit0.0%0

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 Knoxville, 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 Loudon County, the county holding most of Lenoir City's residents.

Loudon County has 1,027 employer establishments, 169 for every 10,000 residents (0.68× the US rate of 248; 0.81× Tennessee's), with 14,920 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,424. The Census Bureau also counts 4,910 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,027; 4,910 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 169; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 14,920
Average annual pay: $49,424; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	94	15.5	0.74×Fewer than typical	799	$59,038	174
Restaurants and other eating places	79	13	0.71×Fewer than typical	1,839	$20,237	11
Specialty trade contractors	62	10.2	0.66×Fewer than typical	391	$43,701	425
Religious organizations	60	9.9	1.78×More than typical	321	$21,190	—
Lessors of real estate	43	7.1	0.58×Fewer than typical	193	$38,974	537
Limited-service restaurants	38	6.3	0.78×Fewer than typical	897	$16,637	3
Services to buildings and dwellings	37	6.1	0.90×About typical	336	$33,193	384
Offices of physicians	36	5.9	0.92×About typical	355	$70,375	41
Construction of buildings	34	5.6	0.74×Fewer than typical	151	$63,907	279
Full-service restaurants	29	4.8	0.62×Fewer than typical	820	$24,694	6
Gasoline stations	28	4.6	1.42×More than typical	214	$30,252	—
Offices of other health practitioners	26	4.3	0.70×Fewer than typical	103	$42,311	71

Rank places for an industry Open Loudon County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 60,699 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 $680.3K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Lenoir City, Tennessee: $61.24 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $680.3K; +128% vs FY2025
Per resident: $61.24; US $1,995
Sole-source: 1.6%; US 30%
Single offer: 18%; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

6.6MFY2017
7.3MFY2018
7.9MFY2019
11.4MFY2020
8MFY2021
926.8KFY2022
877KFY2023
124.2KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Other personal services · 8129$664.6K98%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$13.2K1.9%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$2,4850.4%
Ship and boat building · 3366$5020.1%

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 Lenoir City, Tennessee, so they do not add up across cities.

Lenoir City, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Loudon County, TN ($7.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 8.6% of that total.

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

See federal money in Loudon 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.

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

House

Tim BurchettR-TN-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 96%Missed 2.8%

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.

Loudon County60100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Knoxville, TN52

Other cities and towns in Loudon 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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