Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

Safety40#551/924
Economy9#843/925
Housing92#75/925
Health9#840/925
Healthcare24#705/923
Environment30#642/917
Education31#638/925
Infrastructure22#719/925
Community25#696/925
Leisure & amenities9#844/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Martin, TN micropolitan area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Severe housing problems · low8.1%
99/100Tennessee 13.3%United States 16.8%2017-2021University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Effective property tax rate · low0.44%
91/100Tennessee 0.52%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Pharmacies · high2.4 /10k
91/100Tennessee 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAggregated from counties
Public libraries · high1.5 /10k
89/100Tennessee 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesAggregated from counties
Child care cost burden · low22.7%
86/100Tennessee 22.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Social associations · high13.9 /10k
80/100Tennessee 11.0 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low25.3%
0/100Tennessee 67.9%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Frequent mental distress · high22.1%
2/100Tennessee 22.0%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Mental health providers · low48 /100k
2/100Tennessee 212 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Depression · high30.8%
3/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAggregated from counties
Average weekly wage · low$883
3/100Tennessee $1,354United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Adult smoking · high21.1%
4/100Tennessee 21.0%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties

Trends

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

Drought exposureWorsening
0% (2021) → 54% (Oct 2025–Sep 2026)
+54 pts5 yearsUS 40% → 43%
Gyms and fitness centersImproving
0.3 /10k (2020) → 0.6 /10k (2025)
+98%5 yearsUS 1.2 /10k → 1.3 /10k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.9% (2015-2019) → 85.3% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New business applicationsImproving
5.0 /1k (2020) → 8.6 /1k (2025)
+70%5 yearsUS 13.1 /1k → 16.6 /1k
Preventable hospital staysImproving
4,592 /100k (2019) → 2,280 /100k (2023)
−50%4 yearsUS 3,767 /100k → 2,769 /100k
Drug overdose deathsImproving
21.8 /100k (2021) → 11.2 /100k (Mar 2025–Feb 2026)
−49%5 yearsUS 30.8 /100k → 18.4 /100k

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, Martin, TN micropolitan area improved on 12 of 31 measures with a comparison and declined on 5. 9 moved within the margin of error and 5 barely changed.

Earlier period
Latest period
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among metro and micro areas: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts. Periods differ by measure (most compare 2015-2019 with 2020-2024); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.

Improved12

Gyms+98%0.3 /10k → 0.6 /10k
Broadband+15 points69.9% → 85.3%
Arts & recreation+32%1.8 /10k → 2.4 /10k
New businesses+70%5.0 /1k → 8.6 /1k
Overdose deaths−47%21.2 /100k → 11.2 /100k

Declined5

Grocery stores−21%1.5 /10k → 1.2 /10k
Suicides+28%16.3 /100k → 20.9 /100k
Firearm deaths+26%17.1 /100k → 21.5 /100k
Price / income+0.5×2.4× → 2.9×
Traffic deaths+5.1%16.1 /100k → 16.9 /100k

All 31 measures

Change of every measure of Martin, TN micropolitan area between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	1.8 /10k2020	2.4 /10k2025	+32%	Improved	88%
Average commute time	20.7 min2015-2019	20.9 min2020-2024	+0.2 min	Within the margin of error	58%
Average weekly wage	$7252020	$8832025	+22%	Improved	36%
Bachelor's degree or higher	21.6%2015-2019	22.7%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Broadband subscriptions	69.9%2015-2019	85.3%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	91%
Child poverty rate	27.6%2015-2019	25.1%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	52%
Distance to an airport	109 mi2020	109 mi2025	0 mi	Little change	50%
Drug overdose deaths	21.2 /100k2020	11.2 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026	−47%	Improved	77%
Effective property tax rate	0.60%2015-2019	0.44%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	63%
Firearm deaths	17.1 /100k2020	21.5 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	+26%	Declined	20%
Grocery stores	1.5 /10k2020	1.2 /10k2025	−21%	Declined	9%
Gyms and fitness centers	0.3 /10k2020	0.6 /10k2025	+98%	Improved	96%
High school diploma or higher	85.1%2015-2019	87.2%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Home price to income ratio	2.4×2015-2019	2.9×2020-2024	+0.5×	Declined	47%
Homicide rate	5.8 /100k2020	5.2 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−10%	Improved	31%
Income adjusted for local prices	$44,6652019	$57,0912024	+28%	Improved	21%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4652015-2019	0.4402020-2024	−0.025	Within the margin of error	92%
Median household income	$39,9372015-2019	$51,8802020-2024	+30%	Improved	65%
New business applications	5.0 /1k2020	8.6 /1k2025	+70%	Improved	80%
Pharmacies	2.4 /10k2020	2.4 /10k2025	−1.1%	Little change	68%
Poverty rate	20.3%2015-2019	19.0%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	58%
Property crime rate	1,453 /100k2020	870 /100k2025	−40%	Improved	65%
Public libraries	1.5 /10k2019	1.5 /10k2024	+0.2%	Little change	65%
Rent as share of income	30.1%2015-2019	27.1%2020-2024	−3 points	Within the margin of error	93%
Rent-burdened households	50.4%2015-2019	42.6%2020-2024	−7.8 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Restaurants and bars	6.4 /10k2020	6.6 /10k2025	+3.7%	Little change	61%
Suicide rate	16.3 /100k2020	20.9 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	+28%	Declined	17%
Traffic deaths	16.1 /100k2015-2019	16.9 /100k2020-2024	+5.1%	Declined	53%
Unemployment rate	6.1%2020	4.3%2025	−1.8 points	Improved	16%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.8%2015-2019	11.1%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Violent crime rate	299 /100k2020	238 /100k2025	−21%	Improved	58%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 708 metro and micro areas that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts; Local Area Unemployment Statistics; Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence; American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Business Formation Statistics; Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master files; Public Libraries Survey; Fatality Analysis Reporting System; Distance to airports and intercity rail. 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 925 metro and micro areas 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.

Metro and micro areas like Martin, TN micropolitan area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Martin, TN micropolitan area 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, Martin, TN micropolitan area itself moved +3.1 points in standing on average over the same 30 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

33,016 residents

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

13,384 households (±318)

Martin, TN micropolitan area
United States share

Under $25k23%3,028
$25k–50k25%3,391
$50k–75k19%2,482

Homes

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

Owners and renters

13,384 households (±318)

Martin, TN micropolitan area
United States share

Own66%8,874
Rent34%4,510

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

14,359 workers (±540)

Martin, TN micropolitan area
United States share

Drive alone77%11,086
Carpool9.3%1,337
Public transit0.2%†27

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 no occupation wages for Martin, TN micropolitan area.

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.

Martin, TN has 589 employer establishments, 178 for every 10,000 residents (0.72× the US rate of 248), with 8,540 paid employees at an average annual pay of $38,686. The Census Bureau also counts 2,127 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 589; 2,127 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 178; US 248
Paid employees: 8,540
Average annual pay: $38,686; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	52	15.7	0.85×About typical	862	$16,835	12
Ambulatory health care services	46	13.9	0.67×Fewer than typical	339	$45,991	64
Religious organizations	46	13.9	2.50×More than typical	259	$16,788	—
Specialty trade contractors	29	8.7	0.56×Fewer than typical	154	$38,851	238
Limited-service restaurants	24	7.2	0.90×About typical	479	$16,388	7
Full-service restaurants	22	6.6	0.86×About typical	328	$18,555	5
Gasoline stations	22	6.6	2.05×More than typical	137	$25,759	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	19	5.7	1.14×About typical	60	$45,283	41
Banks and credit unions	15	4.5	1.40×More than typical	142	$50,789	—
Construction of buildings	15	4.5	0.60×Fewer than typical	60	$39,433	110
Offices of other health practitioners	15	4.5	0.74×Fewer than typical	121	$24,223	31
General merchandise stores	14	4.2	2.39×More than typical	416	$28,151	13

Rank places for an industry

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 33,167 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.
A metro area's figures are the exact sums of its counties.
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 contract spending

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $0 on contracts performed in Martin, TN micropolitan area: $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

444.2FY2017
16.1KFY2018
80KFY2020
0FY2021
0FY2022
110.9KFY2023
-7.4KFY2024

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.

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $217.9M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Martin, TN micropolitan area: $6,553 per resident (US $12,955).

Assistance · FY2026: $217.9M; −12% vs FY2025
Per resident: $6,553; US $12,955
Loan face value: $17.5M; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 5.4%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$124.3M57%
96.001 · Social Security Disability Insurance$22M10%

Counties in Martin, TN

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

Weakley CountyCentral county2533,261

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

MartinPrincipal city10,915

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

Other metro and micro areas in Tennessee

Areas based in Tennessee, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and ViolenceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2026-10-01
PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Daily county PM2.5 and ozone (EPA downscaler model)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2022
Care Compare: Hospital General Information and Timely and Effective CareCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services · release 2026-07-22
Distance to airports and intercity railFederal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau · release 2025+amtrak-2026-04-23
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master filesFederal Bureau of Investigation · release 2025
Public Libraries SurveyInstitute of Museum and Library Services · release FY2024
U.S. Drought Monitor county statisticsNational Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAA · release 2026-09-29
Fatality Analysis Reporting SystemNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration · release 2024
nClimGrid-Daily county averagesNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · release 2025
Regional Economic AccountsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · release 2024
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
Quarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2026 Q1
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Business Formation StatisticsU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-10-01
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
Alternative Fuels Data Center station locatorU.S. Department of Energy · release 2026-10
Election Administration and Voting SurveyU.S. Election Assistance Commission · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends

What changed in five years

Improved12

Declined5

Metro and micro areas like Martin, TN micropolitan area five years ago that improved

Who lives here

Age and sex

Income

Household income

Homes

Owners and renters

Getting to work

How people get to work

Jobs and pay

Local businesses

Federal contract spending

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

What was bought

Federal grants & assistance

Top programs

Counties in Martin, TN

Principal cities

Largest cities and towns

Other metro and micro areas in Tennessee

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Similar metro and micro areas

Data and sources

Improved12

Declined5

Age and sex

Household income

Owners and renters

How people get to work

Race and Hispanic origin

Education

Rent paid

Home values

Age of homes

Size of homes

Time to get to work

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

What was bought

Top programs

Top recipients (organizations)

Top agencies

By type

Assistance by fiscal year

County aggregates