Scores by category

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

Safety17#12,960/15,637
Economy37#9,887/15,631
Housing86#2,100/14,977
Health4#15,003/15,609
Healthcare11#13,998/15,650
Environment65#5,355/15,453
Education37#9,913/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,163/15,650
Community23#12,027/15,651
Leisure & amenities28#11,218/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Child care cost burden · low19.9%
95/100Tennessee 22.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHumphreys County value
Pharmacies · high2.5 /10k
91/100Tennessee 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHumphreys County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.47%
89/100Tennessee 0.52%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Property crime rate · low549 /100k
87/100Tennessee 1,637 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationHumphreys County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Tennessee 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHumphreys County value
New homes permitted · high7.8 /1k
84/100Tennessee 5.7 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data

Weaknesses

Depression · high32.4%
2/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Unemployment rate · high16.6%
2/100Tennessee 3.5%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Broadband subscriptions · low81.4%
3/100Tennessee 89.2%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Tennessee 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHumphreys County value
Frequent mental distress · high22.4%
4/100Tennessee 22.0%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Injury deaths · high142 /100k
5/100Tennessee 122 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHumphreys County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,687 (2015-2019) → 1,806 (2020-2024)
+7.1%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
46.8% (2015-2019) → 24.3% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 3.4× (2020-2024)
+87%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
26.0% (2015-2019) → 9.5% (2020-2024)
−16 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Unemployment rateWorsening
1.9% (2015-2019) → 16.6% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
71.2% (2015-2019) → 81.4% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, McEwen, Tennessee improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 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+10 points71.2% → 81.4%
Household income+27%$47,813 → $60,781

Declined1

Price / income+1.6×1.8× → 3.4×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of McEwen, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	35.4 min2015-2019	34.6 min2020-2024	−0.8 min	Within the margin of error	58%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.7%2015-2019	15.2%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Broadband subscriptions	71.2%2015-2019	81.4%2020-2024	+10 points	Improved	60%
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	90.0%2015-2019	81.5%2020-2024	−8.5 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+1.6×	Declined	8%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5032015-2019	0.3932020-2024	−0.110	Within the margin of error	97%
Median household income	$47,8132015-2019	$60,7812020-2024	+27%	Improved	49%
Poverty rate	15.8%2015-2019	9.6%2020-2024	−6.2 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	28.7%2015-2019	24.3%2020-2024	−4.4 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.5%2015-2019	11.9%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	9%

“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 McEwen, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of McEwen, 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, McEwen, Tennessee itself moved +0.6 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

1,806 residents (±382)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 20–29 women (+7.0 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,806 residents (±382)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

White95%1,711
Black0.9%†16
Hispanic or Latino2.8%†50

Education

1,310 residents (±284)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

No high school diploma18%†242
High school or GED40%529
Some college17%†226

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

705 households (±131)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k14%†96
$25k–50k29%†203
$50k–75k17%†120
$75k–100k15%†106
$100k–150k15%†107
$150k–200k5.7%†40
$200k or more4.7%†33

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under $25k (−11.5 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

705 households (±131)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own68%479
Rent32%†226

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

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

195 households (±71)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $75052%†101
$750–1,00027%†53
$1,000–1,50021%†41

Home values

479 homes (±108)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $150k37%†177
$150k–250k33%†159
$250k–400k26%†124

Age of homes

808 homes (±136)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

2010 or later6.2%†50
2000–200911%†85
1980–199927%†218

Size of homes

808 homes (±136)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Studio1.7%†14
1 bedroom6.7%†54
2 bedrooms32%261

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

749 workers (±193)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone74%555
Carpool19%†144
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home3.2%†24
Other3.5%†26

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+3.2 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

725 workers (±187)

McEwen, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under 15 min20%†142
15–29 min41%†300
30–44 min14%†101

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Humphreys County, the county holding most of McEwen's residents.

Humphreys County has 332 employer establishments, 172 for every 10,000 residents (0.69× the US rate of 248; 0.82× Tennessee's), with 4,458 paid employees at an average annual pay of $55,969. The Census Bureau also counts 1,331 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 332; 1,331 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 172; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 4,458
Average annual pay: $55,969; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	30	15.6	0.85×About typical	434	$17,862	7
Specialty trade contractors	28	14.5	0.94×About typical	388	$63,495	173
Religious organizations	24	12.4	2.24×More than typical	98	$20,888	—
Limited-service restaurants	15	7.8	0.97×About typical	266	$16,617	—
Ambulatory health care services	13	6.7	0.32×Fewer than typical	113	$43,133	37
Gasoline stations	13	6.7	2.08×More than typical	157	$28,013	—
Banks and credit unions	11	5.7	1.77×More than typical	64	$39,469	—
Building equipment contractors	11	5.7	0.95×About typical	164	$66,067	44
Full-service restaurants	11	5.7	0.74×Fewer than typical	141	$22,177	3
Other specialty trade contractors	10	5.2	2.07×More than typical	152	$69,757	67
Truck transportation	9	4.7	0.92×Too few to compare	59	$56,915	29
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	8	4.1	2.60×Too few to compare	133	$69,827	3

Rank places for an industry Open Humphreys County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 19,286 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 McEwen, 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

6.5KFY2017
11.4KFY2018
2.5KFY2019
439.2FY2020
550.2FY2022

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

McEwen, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Humphreys County, TN ($65.1K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Humphreys 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.

McEwen, 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.

Humphreys County25100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Humphreys 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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