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Bradley County, Tennessee

Republican +58.9 (2024)
County seat
Cleveland
Judicial district
10th Judicial District Circuit Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
115,465
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 111,065.

At a glance

Bradley County is a 115,465-person venue. The county population is 84% White (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $70,651, $1,356 below the TN state median of $72,007; 24.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 9.1% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and Russian, Polish, or other Slavic. The largest employment sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 23.6% of covered employment, average pay $55,206/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.81%, above the 3.55% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 77% to 79% of the vote across the three.

Population
111,065
Median household income
$66,552
Unemployment
3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 84% / 4%.

Bradley County has a population of 111,065, with a median age of 39.5. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 83.8%; Black residents 4.4%. Independently, 8.4% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $70,651; 24.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 11.6% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 90,175 81.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,320 8.4%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,598 4.1%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,275 1.1%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,714 4.2%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 150 0.1%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 24 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 809 0.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 39.5

  • Under 18 24,294 21.9%
  • 18–24 10,463 9.4%
  • 25–44 27,693 24.9%
  • 45–64 29,370 26.4%
  • 65 and over 19,245 17.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$70,651
90% interval $66,180–$75,122
−$1,356 vs TN · 22nd of 95
Below poverty line
11.6%
90% interval 9.4%–13.8%
−1.7 pp vs TN · 78th of 95

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Led by trade & transportation and healthcare & education

Largest sector in BLS QCEW: Trade, transportation & utilities, 9,434 jobs; Education & health services, 9,013, is within 20% of it.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest employment sector at 23.6% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 22.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.81%, above the Tennessee state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
3.8%
+0.26 pp vs. state
County GDP
$6.7B
1.19% of state
Avg. annual pay
$57,020
Establishments
2,359

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Trade, transportation & utilities 9,434 23.6%
  • Education & health services 9,013 22.5%
  • Manufacturing 7,420 18.5%
  • Leisure & hospitality 4,685 11.7%
  • Professional & business services 3,235 8.1%
  • Public administration 1,454 3.6%
  • Other services 1,207 3.0%
  • Financial activities 1,133 2.8%
  • Construction 72 0.2%
  • Information 44 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 94.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
67.3%
+0.4 pp vs TN · 81st of 95
Median gross rent
$1,030
−$159 vs TN · 19th of 95
Owner-occupied
28,650
Renter-occupied
13,946

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Moderately concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 65% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

  • Moderate wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $73,859/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,299/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 17 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

1 of the 3 employers listed here is in trade, transportation & utilities, accounting for 1,100 employees on this list. So trade, transportation & utilities is the largest sector by employment here, but the county's biggest named employers sit mostly outside it. A panelist who works somewhere you recognize is probably not working where most of this county works; ask where they work before assuming either pattern fits them.

# Employer Sector Employees
1 Whirlpool Corporation (Maytag) Appliance manufacturing 1,535
2 Bradley County Schools Public K-12 education 1,169
3 Amazon Warehousing and distribution 1,100

Showing 3 of 10 employers on the published list(9,196 employees total).

Source: Bradley County, Tennessee, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended June 30, 2025, Table 16, 'Principal Employers, Current Year and Ten Years Ago.' Counts are the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce's survey figures, with the Tennessee Department of Labor also credited; no method or survey date is stated. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 78%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Bradley County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 78.9% in 2024, 76.8% in 2020, 77.5% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 49,246 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201677.5%18.4%
202076.8%21.5%
202478.9%20.0%
  • Republican 38,836 78.9%
  • Democratic 9,852 20.0%
  • Other / third-party 558 1.1%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 70% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 9.1% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

9.1% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Russian, Polish, or other Slavic, French, Haitian, or Cajun. Veterans account for 7.5% of the adult civilian population (6,481 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

90.9% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 6,268 6.0%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,543 1.5%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 163 0.2%
  • Tagalog 118 0.1%
  • German or other West Germanic 101 0.1%
  • Korean 98 0.1%
  • Chinese 91 0.1%
  • Vietnamese 81 0.1%
  • Arabic 44 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
42,596
Family households
29,712
69.8% of households
Married couples w/ children
8,129
27.4% of families
Single-mother families
2,088
7.0% of families
Veterans
6,481
7.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

62.2% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 55,888 51.5%
  • Mainline Protestant 5,556 5.1%
  • Catholic 3,218 3.0%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,782 1.6%
  • Black Protestant 997 0.9%
  • Orthodox 80 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
89.9%
±1 pp
Uninsured
10.1%
±1 pp
44th of 95
With a disability
16.8%
±1 pp
68th of 95
Bachelor's or higher
24.4%
±1.6 pp
−6.7 pp vs TN · 20th of 95
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
12.0%
90% interval 10.8%–13.2% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
10th Judicial District Circuit Court
Judges
3 (Circuit Court judges per district; Chancery + Criminal Court judges separate; vintage 2026 tncourts.gov)
Court seats
Athens, Benton, Cleveland, Madisonville

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Bradley totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 15 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
15
17.29 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
13

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Bradley County, Tennessee to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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