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POPULATION
Fayetteville/Lincoln County is proud of its trained, skilled workforce with a tremendous work ethic. Lincoln County has a workforce of approximately 16,900. Our community also attracts workers from neighboring counties, including Giles, Marshall, Bedford, Moore and Franklin Counties in Tennessee and Limestone and Madison Counties in Alabama. Most recent unemployment statistics from the state of Tennessee indicate Lincoln County's unemployment rate at 4.6% (780 unemployed.)

The population of Lincoln County has seen a steady upward climb of manageable, controlled growth since a brief period of decline in the 1950s.     

LOCATION
Lincoln County is situated in Middle Tennessee on the state’s southern border, directly opposite and contiguous with the border of Madison County, Alabama (Huntsville).  It has the advantage of being within a day’s drive (500 miles) of over three-quarters of the major markets in the United States.

Fayetteville, the county seat, is served by U.S. Hwy. 64, which is a four-lane road connecting I-24 (40 miles away in nearby Grundy County) to I-65 (just 16 miles away in neighboring Giles County).  U.S. Hwy. 64 is the direct route from Chattanooga to Memphis locally, and nationwide runs from the Atlantic Coast of North Carolina to the Four Corners area of Arizona.

Lincoln County is an easy commute to Huntsville, Alabama (just 25 miles away) and a short drive to Nashville, Tennessee’s state capital (78 miles).  Ideally situated for distribution and transport-driven industry, the area is in easy reach of most of the Eastern United States.

GOVERNMENT
Fayetteville is governed by a part-time elected Mayor and Board of Aldermen with a full-time appointed City Administrator. Lincoln County has a County Executive/County Commission form of government. These two governmental entities work extremely well together, especially in the area of economic/community development. Fayetteville and Lincoln County residents and businesses enjoy the benefits of well-managed, low-tax governments. This point is illustrated by the fact that Municipal Analysis Services of Austin, Texas, ranked the City of Fayetteville government in the top 10% of cities nationwide in terms of its efficiency (one of only 840 out of 8,331 cities and counties nationwide to receive such a rating.) In addition, in the past four years, the city administrator, the city fire chief, the city building/codes official and the director of economic development have all been recognized by their peers as being the best in their field in the state of Tennessee.