City · Sevier County, Tennessee

Sevierville, Tennessee

Sevierville is a city in Sevier County, Tennessee, part of the Sevierville, TN metro area. It has 18,397 residents. Sevierville, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 29 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,070 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #101 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on restaurants and bars (high), arts, entertainment and recreation (high) and hospital quality rating (high). It ranks worst on depression (high), average weekly wage (low) and uninsured residents (under 65) (high).

29Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,070 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #101 of 305 in TN
Population: 18,397 (2020-2024)
Land area: 25 mi²
Density: 750.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 4767120

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.

Safety32#10,613/15,637
Economy22#12,147/15,631
Housing46#8,048/14,977
Health11#13,874/15,609
Healthcare17#12,925/15,650
Environment90#1,600/15,453
Education34#10,361/15,649
Infrastructure45#8,570/15,650
Community14#13,399/15,651
Leisure & amenities82#2,773/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Restaurants and bars · high19.0 /10k
98/100Tennessee 7.7 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSevier County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high15.3 /10k
98/100Tennessee 5.5 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSevier County value
Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Tennessee 3.1United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesSevier County value
New homes permitted · high21.1 /1k
96/100Tennessee 5.7 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Effective property tax rate · low0.35%
96/100Tennessee 0.52%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Public EV charging ports · high15.9 /10k
91/100Tennessee 4.3 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergySevier County value

Weaknesses

Depression · high30.3%
3/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Average weekly wage · low$868
3/100Tennessee $1,354United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSevier County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high23.0%
4/100Tennessee 11.3%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Injury deaths · high138 /100k
6/100Tennessee 122 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSevier County value
Frequent mental distress · high21.5%
8/100Tennessee 22.0%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Distance to an Amtrak station · high90 mi
12/100Tennessee 93 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauSevier County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
16,743 (2015-2019) → 18,397 (2020-2024)
+9.9%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
3.5 /1k (2021) → 21.1 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+504%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Child poverty rateImproving
39.7% (2015-2019) → 20.2% (2020-2024)
−19 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.0% (2015-2019) → 89.5% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
44.9% (2015-2019) → 54.2% (2020-2024)
+9.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
15.4% (2015-2019) → 24.6% (2020-2024)
+9.1 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, Sevierville, Tennessee improved on 3 of 14 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.

Improved3

Child poverty−19 points39.7% → 20.2%
Bachelor's++9.1 points15.4% → 24.6%
Broadband+14 points76.0% → 89.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Sevierville, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.3 min2015-2019	23.7 min2020-2024	+2.4 min	Within the margin of error	24%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.4%2015-2019	24.6%2020-2024	+9.1 points	Improved	88%
Broadband subscriptions	76.0%2015-2019	89.5%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	75%
Child poverty rate	39.7%2015-2019	20.2%2020-2024	−19 points	Improved	93%
Effective property tax rate	0.44%2015-2019	0.35%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	32%
High school diploma or higher	83.9%2015-2019	87.4%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Home price to income ratio	4.4×2015-2019	5.5×2020-2024	+1.2×	Within the margin of error	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4642015-2019	0.4462020-2024	−0.018	Within the margin of error	66%
Median household income	$43,2332015-2019	$52,4212020-2024	+21%	Within the margin of error	35%
Poverty rate	20.4%2015-2019	15.4%2020-2024	−5 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Rent as share of income	28.6%2015-2019	31.8%2020-2024	+3.2 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Rent-burdened households	44.9%2015-2019	54.2%2020-2024	+9.3 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Unemployment rate	3.0%2015-2019	4.4%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	24%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	23.0%2015-2019	23.0%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	47%

“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 Sevierville, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Sevierville, 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, Sevierville, Tennessee itself moved −1.7 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

18,397 residents (±41)

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

7,904 households (±465)

Sevierville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k21%1,638
$25k–50k27%2,161
$50k–75k17%1,334

Homes

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

Owners and renters

7,904 households (±465)

Sevierville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own51%3,999
Rent49%3,905

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

9,147 workers (±638)

Sevierville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone81%7,384
Carpool14%1,236
Public transit0.8%†71

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 Sevierville, 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 Sevier County, the county holding most of Sevierville's residents.

Sevier County has 3,117 employer establishments, 310 for every 10,000 residents (1.25× the US rate of 248; 1.48× Tennessee's), with 47,891 paid employees at an average annual pay of $38,211. The Census Bureau also counts 10,089 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,117; 10,089 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 310; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 47,891
Average annual pay: $38,211; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	390	38.8	2.11×More than typical	10,365	$28,675	66
Traveler accommodation	204	20.3	11.3×More than typical	5,204	$37,692	111
Lessors of real estate	198	19.7	1.60×More than typical	2,004	$48,181	1,509
Full-service restaurants	186	18.5	2.41×More than typical	7,203	$31,681	30
Clothing and accessories stores	162	16.1	4.45×More than typical	2,072	$25,290	110
Specialty trade contractors	161	16	1.04×About typical	1,056	$51,460	792
Limited-service restaurants	137	13.6	1.70×More than typical	2,466	$21,018	26
Ambulatory health care services	132	13.1	0.63×Fewer than typical	1,008	$60,907	177
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	101	10.1	3.78×More than typical	4,868	$32,953	66
Services to buildings and dwellings	95	9.5	1.40×More than typical	727	$35,307	1,386
Construction of buildings	94	9.4	1.24×About typical	487	$59,542	561
Religious organizations	85	8.5	1.53×More than typical	576	$25,536	—

Rank places for an industry Open Sevier County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 100,410 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 $130K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Sevierville, Tennessee: $7.06 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $130K; +226% vs FY2025
Per resident: $7.06; US $1,995
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 2.6%; 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

Federal Highway Administration$113.6K87%
National Park Service$14K11%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$2,3391.8%

Top recipients

BLUEGRASS CONTRACTING CORP$110.3K85%
ACE CONSULTING COMPANY, INC.$14K11%
INSTROTEK, INC.$2,4281.9%
KATOM RESTAURANT SUPPLY, INC.$2,3391.8%
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY & TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS$9690.7%

Spending by fiscal year

27.2KFY2017
49.2KFY2018
33.8KFY2019
91.6KFY2020
12.6KFY2021
35.5KFY2022
5.7KFY2023
54.6K

Top industries (NAICS)

Highway, street, and bridge construction · 2373$110.3K85%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$17.4K13%
Plastics product manufacturing · 3261$2,3391.8%

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

Sevierville, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Sevier County, TN ($11.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Sevier 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.

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

House

Diana HarshbargerR-TN-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.3%

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.

Sevier County40100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Sevierville, TN40

Other cities and towns in Sevier 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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