City · Carroll County, Tennessee

McKenzie, Tennessee

McKenzie is a city in Carroll County, Tennessee, part of the Martin, TN metro area. It has 5,631 residents. McKenzie, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 18 out of 100 (very low), ranking #12,911 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #189 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on homicide rate (low), property crime rate (low) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on access to exercise opportunities (low), depression (high) and broadband subscriptions (low).

18Very low

Quality-of-life score: #12,911 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #189 of 305 in TN
Population: 5,631 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 884.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 4744940

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.

Safety65#5,497/15,637
Economy10#14,025/15,631
Housing45#8,181/14,977
Health4#14,977/15,609
Healthcare15#13,232/15,650
Environment63#5,787/15,453
Education40#9,316/15,649
Infrastructure5#14,804/15,650
Community17#12,917/15,651
Leisure & amenities43#8,924/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where McKenzie, Tennessee ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Carroll 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 dataCarroll County value
Property crime rate · low438 /100k
92/100Tennessee 1,637 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCarroll County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low119 min
88/100Tennessee 168 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCarroll County value
Social associations · high13.9 /10k
86/100Tennessee 11.0 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCarroll County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Tennessee 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCarroll County value
Preventable hospital stays · low2,099 /100k
82/100Tennessee 2,914 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCarroll County value

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low25.2%
2/100Tennessee 67.9%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCarroll County value
Depression · high30.9%
3/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Broadband subscriptions · low80.1%
3/100Tennessee 89.2%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Primary care physicians · low18 /100k
3/100Tennessee 69 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCarroll County value
Median household income · low$37,236
4/100Tennessee $72,007United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Life expectancy · low71.1 yrs
5/100Tennessee 73.8 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCarroll County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
5,328 (2015-2019) → 5,631 (2020-2024)
+5.7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
25.2% (2015-2019) → 38.6% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
51.6% (2015-2019) → 64.2% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedImproving
1.4 /1k (2021) → 2.1 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+49%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.9× (2015-2019) → 4.1× (2020-2024)
+44%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
28.8% (2015-2019) → 20.0% (2020-2024)
−8.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, McKenzie, Tennessee improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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.

Improved1

Broadband+8.7 points71.4% → 80.1%

Declined1

Bachelor's+−8.8 points28.8% → 20.0%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of McKenzie, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.5 min2015-2019	20.2 min2020-2024	−5.3 min	Within the margin of error	91%
Bachelor's degree or higher	28.8%2015-2019	20.0%2020-2024	−8.8 points	Declined	2%
Broadband subscriptions	71.4%2015-2019	80.1%2020-2024	+8.7 points	Improved	53%
Child poverty rate	25.2%2015-2019	38.6%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Effective property tax rate	0.84%2015-2019	0.58%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	70%
High school diploma or higher	82.8%2015-2019	87.2%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	4.1×2020-2024	+1.3×	Within the margin of error	14%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4602015-2019	0.4622020-2024	+0.002	Within the margin of error	49%
Median household income	$32,7572015-2019	$37,2362020-2024	+14%	Within the margin of error	21%
Poverty rate	24.3%2015-2019	21.2%2020-2024	−3.1 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	30.7%2015-2019	37.3%2020-2024	+6.6 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Rent-burdened households	51.6%2015-2019	64.2%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.4%2015-2019	12.8%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	12%

“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 McKenzie, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of McKenzie, 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, McKenzie, Tennessee itself moved −5.4 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

5,631 residents (±203)

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

2,187 households (±223)

McKenzie, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k33%719
$25k–50k26%577
$50k–75k12%†257

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,187 households (±223)

McKenzie, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own60%1,313
Rent40%874

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,240 workers (±314)

McKenzie, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone70%1,574
Carpool5.3%†119
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 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 Carroll County, the county holding most of McKenzie's residents.

Carroll County has 445 employer establishments, 153 for every 10,000 residents (0.62× the US rate of 248; 0.73× Tennessee's), with 5,416 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,285. The Census Bureau also counts 1,852 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 445; 1,852 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 153; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 5,416
Average annual pay: $44,285; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	36	12.4	2.24×More than typical	155	$18,374	—
Ambulatory health care services	35	12.1	0.58×Fewer than typical	433	$45,697	56
Restaurants and other eating places	31	10.7	0.58×Fewer than typical	532	$16,088	10
Gasoline stations	21	7.2	2.23×More than typical	119	$26,319	—
Banks and credit unions	17	5.9	1.81×More than typical	179	$65,358	—
Limited-service restaurants	15	5.2	0.64×Fewer than typical	309	$17,155	6
Specialty trade contractors	14	4.8	0.31×Fewer than typical	51	$47,451	225
General merchandise stores	13	4.5	2.54×More than typical	259	$29,633	20
Full-service restaurants	12	4.1	0.54×Fewer than typical	201	$15,592	4
Offices of physicians	12	4.1	0.64×Fewer than typical	206	$51,772	8
Legal services	11	3.8	0.71×Fewer than typical	26	$43,885	6
Building equipment contractors	10	3.4	0.57×Fewer than typical	37	$49,135	47

Rank places for an industry Open Carroll County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 29,007 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 McKenzie, Tennessee: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

24FY2019
619.5FY2020
2.7KFY2021
3.6KFY2022
15.4KFY2023
15.2KFY2024
24.1KFY2025

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

McKenzie, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Carroll County, TN, Weakley County, TN and Henry County, TN ($1.2M 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: McKenzie is mostly in Carroll County.

See federal money in Carroll 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.

McKenzie, 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.

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Martin, TN18

Other cities and towns in Carroll 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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