Tennessee has 95 counties and the Think Tennessee State of our Counties Dashboard has metrics that show the fascinating rank of Shelby County in relation to its sister counties:
#51 – Employment growth – 14.6%, change in the count of jobs between 2010-2022
#78 – Cost of living – $71,660 – annual cost of living for two parent, two children family
#63 – Households receiving food stamps – 16.2%
#5 – Average wages and salaries – $67,922 – average annual wage of employees
#72 – Poverty – 18.6% – percentage of people living below poverty line
#17 – Wage Gap – 83.8% – Women’s median earnings as percentage of men’s
#95 – Bankruptcy rate – 656 per 100,000 – rate of nonbusiness bankruptcy filings
#3 – Debt to income ratio – 0.86 – amount of debt individuals owe relative to income
#85 – Debt in collections – 39.0% – share of people with debt in collections
#85 – Median credit score – 665 – median credit score, maximum is 850
#79 – Election day polling stations to voters ratio – 1 polling place to 593.01 voters
#58 – Incarceration rate – 1,541 per 100,000 – rate for residents 16 to 64
#75 – High school graduation rate – 83.1% – Students graduating in four years and summer
#84 – Firearm fatalities – 31 per 100,000 residents
#91 – Renter cost burdened – 54.2% – occupied units with rent is greater than 30% income
#81 – Home cost burdened – 39.2% – owner-occupied houses with costs more than 30%
#76 – Child care cost burden – 27% – child care for two children as % of household income
#94 – Injury crash rate – 13.25 per 1,000 – crash rate that result in injuries
#45 – Change in median rent – 23.4% – change from 2017 to 2022
#74 – Weekly minimum wage work hours needed to afford a 2-BR rental unit – 109.5
#14 – Average commute to work – 22.6 minutes – travel time to work
#8 – Household energy burden – 2.1% – % of annual income spent on energy
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