Scores by category

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

Safety42#9,015/15,637
Economy4#14,950/15,631
Housing61#5,769/14,977
Health1#15,446/15,609
Healthcare9#14,300/15,650
Environment97#421/15,453
Education17#12,966/15,649
Infrastructure1#15,521/15,650
Community9#14,270/15,651
Leisure & amenities10#14,033/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Pharmacies · high4.0 /10k
99/100Tennessee 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsScott County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.49%
88/100Tennessee 0.52%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Property crime rate · low520 /100k
88/100Tennessee 1,637 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationScott County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Tennessee 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteScott County value
Hot days · low5 days
85/100Tennessee 32 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationScott County value
Public libraries · high1.3 /10k
83/100Tennessee 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesScott County value

Weaknesses

Broadband subscriptions · low64.7%
1/100Tennessee 89.2%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Depression · high33.9%
1/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Frequent mental distress · high24.5%
1/100Tennessee 22.0%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Adult smoking · high26.3%
1/100Tennessee 21.0%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Preventable hospital stays · high5,176 /100k
1/100Tennessee 2,914 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteScott County value
Average weekly wage · low$839
2/100Tennessee $1,354United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsScott County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,035 (2015-2019) → 1,153 (2020-2024)
+11%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
22.7% (2015-2019) → 47.5% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
22.4% (2015-2019) → 32.1% (2020-2024)
+9.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
55.3% (2015-2019) → 64.7% (2020-2024)
+9.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateWorsening
20.9% (2015-2019) → 28.4% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateImproving
11.4% (2015-2019) → 4.2% (2020-2024)
−7.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

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, Winfield, Tennessee improved on 0 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Winfield, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	31.6 min2015-2019	34.2 min2020-2024	+2.6 min	Within the margin of error	22%
Bachelor's degree or higher	6.4%2015-2019	9.9%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Broadband subscriptions	55.3%2015-2019	64.7%2020-2024	+9.4 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Effective property tax rate	0.70%2015-2019	0.49%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	59%
High school diploma or higher	80.5%2015-2019	78.4%2020-2024	−2.1 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3762015-2019	0.4522020-2024	+0.076	Within the margin of error	9%
Poverty rate	20.9%2015-2019	28.4%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.1%2015-2019	16.1%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	19%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 10944 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 Winfield, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Winfield, 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, Winfield, Tennessee itself moved −9.1 points in standing on average over the same 6 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

1,153 residents (±341)

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 men (−5.0 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

1,153 residents (±341)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

White99%1,141
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino0.0%0

Education

744 residents (±188)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

No high school diploma22%†161
High school or GED45%†338
Some college17%†

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

479 households (±131)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k44%†211
$25k–50k11%†55
$50k–75k16%†78
$75k–100k15%†70
$100k–150k12%†57
$150k–200k1.7%†8
$200k or more0.0%0

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $25k–50k (−32.0 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 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

479 households (±131)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own82%†391
Rent18%†88

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+23.9 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 B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

65 households (±38)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $75060%†39
$750–1,00032%†21
$1,000–1,5007.7%†5

Home values

391 homes (±126)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $150k74%†289
$150k–250k16%†61
$250k–400k5.1%†20

Age of homes

518 homes (±138)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

2010 or later7.7%†40
2000–200918%†92
1980–199948%†249

Size of homes

518 homes (±138)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom3.3%†17
2 bedrooms14%†70

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

412 workers (±173)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone88%†364
Carpool6.8%†28
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home4.9%†20
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

392 workers (±159)

Winfield, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under 15 min14%†54
15–29 min47%†184
30–44 min10%†41

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 Scott County, the county holding most of Winfield's residents.

Scott County has 351 employer establishments, 158 for every 10,000 residents (0.64× the US rate of 248; 0.75× Tennessee's), with 4,173 paid employees at an average annual pay of $37,589. The Census Bureau also counts 1,629 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 351; 1,629 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 158; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 4,173
Average annual pay: $37,589; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	40	18	0.86×About typical	526	$46,376	47
Restaurants and other eating places	27	12.1	0.66×Fewer than typical	506	$14,654	11
Specialty trade contractors	20	9	0.58×Fewer than typical	213	$58,385	178
Limited-service restaurants	18	8.1	1.01×About typical	385	$14,405	7
Gasoline stations	16	7.2	2.22×More than typical	86	$20,500	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	13	5.8	1.16×About typical	47	$49,447	45
Truck transportation	13	5.8	1.16×About typical	53	$39,264	152
Religious organizations	12	5.4	0.97×About typical	36	$22,139	—
Health and personal care stores	11	4.9	1.86×More than typical	102	$37,343	13
Outpatient care centers	11	4.9	2.69×More than typical	151	$47,954	—
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	9	4	2.53×Too few to compare	86	$46,860	7
Medical and diagnostic laboratories	9	4	5.77×Too few to compare	47	$50,851	—

Rank places for an industry Open Scott County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 22,253 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 Winfield, 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

32.5FY2017

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

Winfield, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Scott County, TN ($1.8M 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: Winfield is mostly in Scott County.

See federal money in Scott 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.

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