Census-designated place · Bedford County, Tennessee

Unionville, Tennessee

Unionville is a census-designated place in Bedford County, Tennessee, part of the Shelbyville, TN metro area. It has 1,275 residents. Unionville, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 19 out of 100 (very low), ranking #12,658 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #171 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on unemployment rate (low), income inequality (Gini index) (low) and child care cost burden (low). It ranks worst on depression (high), distance to an Amtrak station (high) and dentists (low).

19Very low

Quality-of-life score: #12,658 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #171 of 305 in TN
Population: 1,275 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 141.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 4776180

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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#10,586/15,637
Economy70#4,667/15,631
Housing66#5,142/14,977
Health13#13,608/15,609
Healthcare24#11,824/15,650
Environment50#7,682/15,453
Education17#12,974/15,649
Infrastructure27#11,459/15,650
Community3#15,123/15,651
Leisure & amenities8#14,384/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Tennessee 3.5%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.278
98/100Tennessee 0.476United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Child care cost burden · low18.1%
98/100Tennessee 22.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBedford County value
Poverty rate · low1.4%
98/100Tennessee 13.3%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Effective property tax rate · low0.46%
91/100Tennessee 0.52%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Tennessee 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBedford County value

Weaknesses

Depression · high31.2%
3/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Distance to an Amtrak station · high134 mi
6/100Tennessee 93 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauBedford County value
Dentists · low25 /100k
7/100Tennessee 57 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBedford County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.4 /10k
7/100Tennessee 4.3 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyBedford County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low44.3%
8/100Tennessee 67.9%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBedford County value
Primary care shortage · high17.0
9/100Tennessee 8.8United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBedford County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,109 (2015-2019) → 1,275 (2020-2024)
−40%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
High school diploma or higherImproving
73.1% (2015-2019) → 89.8% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
71.2% (2015-2019) → 87.7% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.5× (2015-2019) → 4.0× (2020-2024)
+61%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
14.6% (2015-2019) → 3.7% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Income inequality (Gini index)Improving
0.450 (2015-2019) → 0.278 (2020-2024)
−38%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

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, Unionville, Tennessee improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 7 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.

Improved1

Inequality−0.1720.450 → 0.278

Declined1

Price / income+1.5×2.5× → 4.0×

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Unionville, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	30.9 min2015-2019	31.6 min2020-2024	+0.7 min	Within the margin of error	40%
Broadband subscriptions	71.2%2015-2019	87.7%2020-2024	+16 points	Within the margin of error	84%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Effective property tax rate	0.60%2015-2019	0.46%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	45%
High school diploma or higher	73.1%2015-2019	89.8%2020-2024	+17 points	Within the margin of error	99%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	4.0×2020-2024	+1.5×	Declined	9%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4502015-2019	0.2782020-2024	−0.172	Improved	99%
Median household income	$56,8452015-2019	$70,5412020-2024	+24%	Within the margin of error	42%
Unemployment rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	49%

“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 Unionville, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Unionville, 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, Unionville, Tennessee itself moved +11.2 points in standing on average over the same 7 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

1,275 residents (±432)

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

470 households (±153)

Unionville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k3.6%†17
$25k–50k23%†108
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

470 households (±153)

Unionville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own78%†368
Rent22%†102

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

700 workers (±241)

Unionville, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone76%†530
Carpool9.7%†68
Public transit

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 Shelbyville, 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 Bedford County, the county holding most of Unionville's residents.

Bedford County has 889 employer establishments, 167 for every 10,000 residents (0.67× the US rate of 248; 0.80× Tennessee's), with 14,839 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,934. The Census Bureau also counts 3,965 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 889; 3,965 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 167; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 14,839
Average annual pay: $50,934; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	82	15.4	0.99×About typical	1,028	$83,546	470
Restaurants and other eating places	68	12.8	0.70×Fewer than typical	1,083	$18,898	26
Ambulatory health care services	53	10	0.48×Fewer than typical	360	$58,975	112
Religious organizations	39	7.3	1.32×More than typical	193	$22,425	—
Building equipment contractors	32	6	1.00×About typical	338	$57,701	87
Full-service restaurants	32	6	0.78×Fewer than typical	370	$22,765	14
Gasoline stations	30	5.6	1.74×More than typical	175	$27,909	—
Limited-service restaurants	30	5.6	0.70×Fewer than typical	656	$16,960	8
Truck transportation	28	5.3	1.04×About typical	1,428	$56,358	88
Automotive repair and maintenance	27	5.1	1.01×About typical	134	$44,761	73
Services to buildings and dwellings	27	5.1	0.75×Fewer than typical	210	$36,276	339
Lessors of real estate	25	4.7	0.38×Fewer than typical	71	$28,634	317

Rank places for an industry Open Bedford County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 53,249 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 Unionville, 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

3KFY2021
-5.6FY2022

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

Unionville, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Bedford County, TN ($2.6M 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: Unionville is mostly in Bedford County.

See federal money in Bedford 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.

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

House

Scott DesJarlaisR-TN-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 4.4%

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.

Bedford County13100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Shelbyville, TN11

Other cities and towns in Bedford 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
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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