FACTS ABOUT FAYETTEVILLE AND LINCOLN COUNTY
Fayetteville/Lincoln County has been blessed with a motivated workforce, a fantastic location, great weather, a highly developed infrastructure and municipal and county governments that work together very well toward achieving common goals. The area is a formidable candidate for any development concern, no matter what industry.
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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.