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State Development Index

Tennessee

#15of 5158B−

Scored on 7 of 8 pillars. Missing: Adult obesity, 2024. A pillar with a hole is not scored at all, because averaging the indicators it does have would hand the missing one the mean of the others.

Above: Iowa (58). Below: Washington, D.C. (58).

Starting up

How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.

64+9 vs median

  1. Business applications per 1,000 residents1.654 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau
  2. State tax collected per resident$3,53874 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections

Population health

One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.

Not scored — an indicator is missing

  1. Adult obesity, 2024—— — no value published for this stateCDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  2. Firearm-injury deaths per 100,000 (crude)20.318 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCDC NCIPC, CDC NCIPC 2024

Productive base

Output per worker and how much of the job base is manufacturing.

69+18 vs median

  1. Output per worker$169,17058 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
  2. Manufacturing share of jobs10.5%79 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Labour market

How tight the market is, and which way it moved last month.

57+8 vs median

  1. Unemployment rate3.4%70 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  2. Employment change, latest month-0.01%44 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Prosperity

What the average person in the state actually earns.

31-21 vs median

  1. Per-capita personal income$69,13136 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
  2. Adults 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher32.4%26 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 1-year

Things get built

Housing authorised per worker — a direct read on whether projects clear.

65+7 vs median

  1. Housing units authorised per 1,000 workers1.280 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau
  2. House price index (FHFA)705.450 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsFederal Housing Finance Agency

Fiscal standing

What the bond market thinks of the state as a counterparty.

100+8 vs median

  1. General-obligation ratingAaa · Stable100 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsMoody's, indicative 2025

Openness

Whether you can get an answer out of the state without telephoning it.

18-33 vs median

  1. Open-data portal answers an APIPublished address answers nothing0 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA probe, 2026-09
  2. Incentive, permit & finance datasets00 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA discovery, 2026-09
  3. Government or agency newsroom feeds254 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA probe, 2026-09
Tennessee — State Development Index — Applied America