Scores by category

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

Safety45#8,526/15,637
Economy63#5,748/15,631
Housing99#132/14,977
Health9#14,187/15,609
Healthcare22#12,240/15,650
Environment78#3,474/15,453
Education32#10,581/15,649
Infrastructure44#8,784/15,650
Community14#13,516/15,651
Leisure & amenities2#15,355/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Rent as share of income · low9.0%
100/100Tennessee 29.5%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Rent-burdened households · low12.1%
95/100Tennessee 48.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Child care cost burden · low20.0%
94/100Tennessee 22.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson County value
Public transit commuters · high5.7%
94/100Tennessee 0.4%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301High uncertainty
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.338
94/100Tennessee 0.476United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Effective property tax rate · low0.46%
90/100Tennessee 0.52%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Weaknesses

Depression · high31.3%
2/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Restaurants and bars · low3.7 /10k
4/100Tennessee 7.7 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJefferson County value
Drug overdose deaths · high36.3 /100k
5/100Tennessee 27.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJefferson County value
Dentists · low23 /100k
6/100Tennessee 57 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low41.9%
6/100Tennessee 67.9%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.8 /10k
9/100Tennessee 5.5 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJefferson County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,468 (2015-2019) → 1,619 (2020-2024)
+10%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
31.3% (2015-2019) → 2.7% (2020-2024)
−29 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
71.8% (2015-2019) → 89.5% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
3.1 /1k (2021) → 1.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−60%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
High school diploma or higherImproving
83.0% (2015-2019) → 94.8% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
19.4% (2015-2019) → 9.0% (2020-2024)
−10 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, New Market, Tennessee improved on 3 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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.

Improved3

Rent / income−10 points19.4% → 9.0%
Broadband+18 points71.8% → 89.5%
Household income+28%$56,711 → $72,321

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of New Market, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.6 min2015-2019	24.9 min2020-2024	−1.8 min	Within the margin of error	68%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.2%2015-2019	27.4%2020-2024	+7.3 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Broadband subscriptions	71.8%2015-2019	89.5%2020-2024	+18 points	Improved	86%
Effective property tax rate	0.49%2015-2019	0.46%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	21%
High school diploma or higher	83.0%2015-2019	94.8%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	97%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	58%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3862015-2019	0.3382020-2024	−0.048	Within the margin of error	83%
Median household income	$56,7112015-2019	$72,3212020-2024	+28%	Improved	50%
Poverty rate	14.4%2015-2019	7.5%2020-2024	−6.9 points	Within the margin of error	87%
Rent as share of income	19.4%2015-2019	9.0%2020-2024	−10 points	Improved	94%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.9%2015-2019	5.7%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Within the margin of error	78%

“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 New Market, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of New Market, 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, New Market, Tennessee itself moved +12 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

1,619 residents (±426)

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: 50–59 women (−4.5 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 B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,619 residents (±426)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

White92%1,486
Black2.8%†46
Hispanic or Latino0.0%0
Asian0.1%†2
American Indian and Alaska Native0.1%†1
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0.0%0
Other or two or more races5.2%†84

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 B03002View table on data.census.gov

Education

1,104 residents (±254)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

No high school diploma5.2%†57
High school or GED33%364
Some college27%†293
Associate degree7.9%†87
Bachelor's degree23%†253
Graduate degree4.5%†50

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: No high school diploma (−11.8 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 B15003View 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.

Income

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

Household income

580 households (±121)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k13%†76
$25k–50k20%†115
$50k–75k21%†123
$75k–100k19%†108
$100k–150k22%†126
$150k–200k3.8%†22
$200k or more1.7%†10

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 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

580 households (±121)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own76%438
Rent24%†142

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

94 households (±82)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $75023%†22
$750–1,00055%†52
$1,000–1,50012%†11

Home values

438 homes (±83)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $150k39%†173
$150k–250k38%†166
$250k–400k17%†75

Age of homes

619 homes (±131)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

2010 or later9.2%†57
2000–20093.4%†21
1980–199924%†151

Size of homes

619 homes (±131)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Studio0.6%†4
1 bedroom2.9%†18
2 bedrooms21%†127

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

832 workers (±237)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone72%602
Carpool8.1%†67
Public transit5.6%†47
Walk9.7%†81
Bike0.0%0
Work from home4.2%†35
Other0.0%0

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 B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

797 workers (±235)

New Market, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under 15 min36%†284
15–29 min24%†190
30–44 min26%†209

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

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 Morristown, 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 Jefferson County, the county holding most of New Market's residents.

Jefferson County has 771 employer establishments, 133 for every 10,000 residents (0.54× the US rate of 248; 0.64× Tennessee's), with 11,709 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,817. The Census Bureau also counts 4,424 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 771; 4,424 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 133; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 11,709
Average annual pay: $46,817; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	65	11.2	0.61×Fewer than typical	1,272	$18,005	16
Ambulatory health care services	62	10.7	0.51×Fewer than typical	554	$53,525	127
Specialty trade contractors	60	10.4	0.67×Fewer than typical	303	$46,399	430
Religious organizations	51	8.8	1.59×More than typical	405	$24,733	—
Limited-service restaurants	32	5.5	0.69×Fewer than typical	827	$16,180	8
Gasoline stations	31	5.4	1.65×More than typical	336	$30,310	—
Full-service restaurants	28	4.8	0.63×Fewer than typical	426	$21,812	6
Services to buildings and dwellings	28	4.8	0.72×Fewer than typical	215	$42,851	457
Construction of buildings	25	4.3	0.57×Fewer than typical	155	$50,581	234
Truck transportation	25	4.3	0.85×About typical	1,196	$79,410	101
Building equipment contractors	23	4	0.66×Fewer than typical	115	$46,643	98
Lessors of real estate	22	3.8	0.31×Fewer than typical	39	$35,872	389

Rank places for an industry Open Jefferson County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 57,849 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 New Market, Tennessee: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
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

869.2FY2018
7.1KFY2019
-7.1KFY2021

What was bought

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 New Market, Tennessee, so they do not add up across cities.

New Market, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Jefferson County, TN ($697.5K 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: New Market is mostly in Jefferson County.

See federal money in Jefferson 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.

New Market, Tennessee is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).