City · Weakley County, Tennessee

Martin, Tennessee

Martin is a city in Weakley County, Tennessee, part of the Martin, TN metro area. It has 10,915 residents. Martin, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 16 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,120 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #203 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on average commute time (low), reading scores (high) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on access to exercise opportunities (low), depression (high) and frequent mental distress (high).

16Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,120 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #203 of 305 in TN
Population: 10,915 (2020-2024)
Land area: 12 mi²
Density: 879.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 4746240

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.

Safety30#10,901/15,637
Economy2#15,275/15,631
Housing55#6,795/14,977
Health7#14,478/15,609
Healthcare12#13,807/15,650
Environment40#9,288/15,453
Education83#2,614/15,649
Infrastructure34#10,322/15,650
Community16#13,111/15,651
Leisure & amenities12#13,830/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Average commute time · low13.7 min
98/100Tennessee 25.7 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Reading scores · high3.39
94/100Tennessee 2.99United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWeakley County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.47%
89/100Tennessee 0.52%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Pharmacies · high2.4 /10k
87/100Tennessee 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWeakley County value
Public libraries · high1.5 /10k
87/100Tennessee 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesWeakley County value
Social associations · high13.9 /10k
86/100Tennessee 11.0 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWeakley County value

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low25.3%
2/100Tennessee 67.9%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWeakley County value
Depression · high30.6%
3/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Frequent mental distress · high22.4%
4/100Tennessee 22.0%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Average weekly wage · low$883
4/100Tennessee $1,354United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWeakley County value
Poverty rate · high26.3%
5/100Tennessee 13.3%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Voter turnout · low51.3%
5/100Tennessee 58.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionWeakley County value

Trends

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

New homes permittedWorsening
2.6 /1k (2021) → 0.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−82%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
74.4% (2015-2019) → 88.3% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
59.9% (2015-2019) → 48.4% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$32,364 (2015-2019) → $43,381 (2020-2024)
+34%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent as share of incomeImproving
33.5% (2015-2019) → 29.3% (2020-2024)
−4.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateImproving
30.2% (2015-2019) → 26.3% (2020-2024)
−4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Martin, Tennessee improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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

Broadband+14 points74.4% → 88.3%
Household income+34%$32,364 → $43,381

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Martin, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.2 min2015-2019	13.7 min2020-2024	−1.5 min	Within the margin of error	66%
Bachelor's degree or higher	31.3%2015-2019	30.4%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Broadband subscriptions	74.4%2015-2019	88.3%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	76%
Child poverty rate	32.5%2015-2019	29.9%2020-2024	−2.6 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Effective property tax rate	0.63%2015-2019	0.47%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	48%
High school diploma or higher	89.0%2015-2019	91.8%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Home price to income ratio	4.0×2015-2019	4.6×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	42%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5002015-2019	0.4952020-2024	−0.005	Within the margin of error	55%
Median household income	$32,3642015-2019	$43,3812020-2024	+34%	Improved	63%
Poverty rate	30.2%2015-2019	26.3%2020-2024	−4 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Rent as share of income	33.5%2015-2019	29.3%2020-2024	−4.2 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Rent-burdened households	59.9%2015-2019	48.4%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Unemployment rate	5.6%2015-2019	6.4%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.0%2015-2019	13.8%2020-2024	+3.9 points	Within the margin of error	14%

“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 Martin, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Martin, 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, Martin, Tennessee itself moved +8.4 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

10,915 residents (±44)

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

4,265 households (±225)

Martin, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k30%1,275
$25k–50k26%1,097
$50k–75k16%671

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,265 households (±225)

Martin, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own42%1,808
Rent58%2,457

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

4,967 workers (±398)

Martin, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone71%3,540
Carpool10%†508
Public transit0.3%†17

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 Martin, 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 Weakley County, the county holding most of Martin's residents.

Weakley County has 589 employer establishments, 178 for every 10,000 residents (0.72× the US rate of 248; 0.85× Tennessee's), with 8,540 paid employees at an average annual pay of $38,686. The Census Bureau also counts 2,127 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 589; 2,127 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 178; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 8,540
Average annual pay: $38,686; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	52	15.7	0.85×About typical	862	$16,835	12
Ambulatory health care services	46	13.9	0.67×Fewer than typical	339	$45,991	64
Religious organizations	46	13.9	2.50×More than typical	259	$16,788	—
Specialty trade contractors	29	8.7	0.56×Fewer than typical	154	$38,851	238
Limited-service restaurants	24	7.2	0.90×About typical	479	$16,388	7
Full-service restaurants	22	6.6	0.86×About typical	328	$18,555	5
Gasoline stations	22	6.6	2.05×More than typical	137	$25,759	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	19	5.7	1.14×About typical	60	$45,283	41
Banks and credit unions	15	4.5	1.40×More than typical	142	$50,789	—
Construction of buildings	15	4.5	0.60×Fewer than typical	60	$39,433	110
Offices of other health practitioners	15	4.5	0.74×Fewer than typical	121	$24,223	31
General merchandise stores	14	4.2	2.39×More than typical	416	$28,151	13

Rank places for an industry Open Weakley County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 33,167 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Martin, Tennessee: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

1.5KFY2018
6.7KFY2020
0FY2021
0FY2022

What was bought

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

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

See federal money in Weakley 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.

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

House

David KustoffR-TN-8 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.7%

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.

Weakley County25100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Martin, TN18

Other cities and towns in Weakley 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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