# Counties in Tennessee by covered employment (QCEW), 2025

All 95 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `covered_employment`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Average number of jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counted where the job is located, from the reports employers file each quarter; monthly employment counts the jobs in the pay period that includes the 12th.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/covered-employment/tennessee-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Davidson County | 554,677 |
| 2 | Shelby County | 471,160 |
| 3 | Knox County | 262,703 |
| 4 | Hamilton County | 219,580 |
| 5 | Williamson County | 151,470 |
| 6 | Rutherford County | 148,438 |
| 7 | Sullivan County | 70,470 |
| 8 | Montgomery County | 65,862 |
| 9 | Wilson County | 65,458 |
| 10 | Washington County | 63,282 |
| 11 | Sumner County | 62,901 |
| 12 | Madison County | 61,056 |
| 13 | Blount County | 57,169 |
| 14 | Sevier County | 53,214 |
| 15 | Anderson County | 46,595 |
| 16 | Maury County | 40,556 |
| 17 | Bradley County | 40,033 |
| 18 | Putnam County | 39,901 |
| 19 | Hamblen County | 33,121 |
| 20 | Coffee County | 25,879 |
| 21 | Greene County | 24,941 |
| 22 | Robertson County | 23,188 |
| 23 | Roane County | 19,834 |
| 24 | Cumberland County | 19,249 |
| 25 | Dickson County | 18,815 |
| 26 | Loudon County | 18,013 |
| 27 | McMinn County | 17,072 |
| 28 | Bedford County | 16,906 |
| 29 | Dyer County | 16,780 |
| 30 | Gibson County | 16,381 |
| 31 | Monroe County | 14,633 |
| 32 | Jefferson County | 13,797 |
| 33 | Hawkins County | 13,291 |
| 34 | Warren County | 12,829 |
| 35 | Carter County | 12,639 |
| 36 | Rhea County | 12,205 |
| 37 | Tipton County | 11,924 |
| 38 | Obion County | 11,923 |
| 39 | Henry County | 11,900 |
| 40 | Lawrence County | 11,638 |
| 41 | Franklin County | 11,323 |
| 42 | Weakley County | 10,635 |
| 43 | Cheatham County | 9,974 |
| 44 | Marshall County | 9,852 |
| 45 | Lincoln County | 9,796 |
| 46 | Giles County | 9,614 |
| 47 | Campbell County | 9,318 |
| 48 | Claiborne County | 8,712 |
| 49 | Fayette County | 8,381 |
| 50 | Hardin County | 8,351 |
| 51 | Marion County | 8,350 |
| 52 | Henderson County | 8,197 |
| 53 | Carroll County | 7,535 |
| 54 | Cocke County | 7,408 |
| 55 | White County | 7,059 |
| 56 | Hardeman County | 6,396 |
| 57 | Haywood County | 6,337 |
| 58 | Lauderdale County | 6,310 |
| 59 | Fentress County | 5,947 |
| 60 | Humphreys County | 5,768 |
| 61 | Overton County | 5,760 |
| 62 | Scott County | 5,743 |
| 63 | McNairy County | 5,581 |
| 64 | Macon County | 5,223 |
| 65 | DeKalb County | 5,204 |
| 66 | Smith County | 4,947 |
| 67 | Unicoi County | 4,843 |
| 68 | Benton County | 4,440 |
| 69 | Grainger County | 4,198 |
| 70 | Johnson County | 4,187 |
| 71 | Hickman County | 4,123 |
| 72 | Wayne County | 4,070 |
| 73 | Chester County | 3,876 |
| 74 | Crockett County | 3,856 |
| 75 | Sequatchie County | 3,537 |
| 76 | Decatur County | 3,364 |
| 77 | Lewis County | 3,289 |
| 78 | Morgan County | 3,158 |
| 79 | Stewart County | 2,828 |
| 80 | Union County | 2,688 |
| 81 | Trousdale County | 2,672 |
| 82 | Polk County | 2,666 |
| 83 | Bledsoe County | 2,520 |
| 84 | Moore County | 2,354 |
| 85 | Cannon County | 2,209 |
| 86 | Grundy County | 2,120 |
| 87 | Meigs County | 1,930 |
| 88 | Perry County | 1,701 |
| 89 | Jackson County | 1,691 |
| 90 | Houston County | 1,478 |
| 91 | Lake County | 1,456 |
| 92 | Clay County | 1,334 |
| 93 | Hancock County | 1,042 |
| 94 | Pickett County | 898 |
| 95 | Van Buren County | 868 |