Grundy County, TN
Demographic and economic profile of Grundy County, TN, sourced from the US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) via Data USA.
AI Overview
Grundy County is a small rural Tennessee county of 13,665 residents with a low-cost labor profile — median worker earnings of $30,925 and a per capita income of $24,411 — though a 7.2% unemployment rate and 49.4% labor force participation rate signal a constrained available workforce. Only 12.4% of residents hold a bachelor's degree or higher, pointing toward a workforce oriented to trade and manual occupations rather than professional or technical roles. Housing costs are low, with a median home value of $133,400 and median gross rent of $723/month, and the county posted modest population growth of 2.5% over five years against a 19.2% poverty rate.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · generated Jul 6, 2026 · derived from cached Census, BEA & ACS data on this page
Population Growth (5-year)
+2.5% since 2018
Grundy County added population at this rate over the prior 5-year ACS5 window.
Demographics
Race & Ethnicity
- White Alone12,962 (93.8%)
- Two Races Excluding Some Other Race, & Three or More Races557 (4.0%)
- Two Races Including Some Other Race115 (0.8%)
- Asian Alone105 (0.8%)
- Black or African American Alone62 (0.4%)
- American Indian & Alaska Native Alone16 (0.1%)
Top Languages Spoken at Home
- 1.Other Indo-European64
- 2.Spanish18
- 3.French (incl. Cajun, Haitian)3
- 4.Arabic3
Economy
Cost of Living Index
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Top Industries
- 1.Educational Services, & Health Care & Social Assistance1,053
- 2.Manufacturing (Group)999
- 3.Retail Trade (Group)569
- 4.Professional, Scientific, & Management, & Administrative & Waste Management Services504
- 5.Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities498
Top Occupations
- 1.Management, Business, Science, & Arts Occupations1,487
- 2.Production, Transportation, & Material Moving Occupations1,353
- 3.Sales & Office Occupations851
- 4.Natural Resources, Construction, & Maintenance Occupations732
- 5.Service Occupations727
Specialized Industries (Location Quotient)
- 1.Public Administration (LQ 2.01×)489
- 2.Manufacturing (LQ 2.01×)1,027
- 3.Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining (LQ 1.44×)118
- 4.Transportation, Warehousing, & Utilities (LQ 1.25×)376
- 5.Educational Services & Health Care (LQ 1.02×)1,226
Housing
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Workforce
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Data: US Census Bureau American Community Survey, served via Data USA and the Census Bureau API. See each metric tile for the specific dataset.