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WELCOME to the Tennessee State Data Center News Update -- helping you keep abreast and understand the most tdata releases concerning Tennesseeans. |
| Revised Metro, Micro, and Combined Statistical Area Delineations |  As of February 2013, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget announced new metropolitan, micropolitan, and combined statistical area definitions. As shown above, several changes were made to Tennessee boundaries. Tennessee now has 10 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 16 Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and 6 Combined Metropolitan Statistical Areas. It is important to note that 2012 Population Estimates are based on the new delineations effective February 2013. |
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2010 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SUMMARY FILE (113th Congress) | |
The Congressional District Summary File for the 113th Congress is now available on American FactFinder. This file is a retabulation of the 2010 Census Summary File 1 100% Data based on the newly redistricted Congressional Districts of the 113th Congress. The data include age (including single years of age), sex, race and Hispanic or Latino origin (including detailed population groups), household type, relationship, population in group quarters, whether the residence is owned or rented (tenure) and vacancy status. The data are available down to the Census Tract level. These congressional district boundaries were submitted by state officials following the legislative redistricting that occurred after the 2010 Census. For more information on congressional districts visit the redistricting data website.
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Tennessee State Government Tax Collections Reach High of Nearly $12 Billion in FY12 | |
According to recently released 2012 Annual Survey of State Governments data, Tennessee state government tax collections increased by $774.6 million (6.9 percent) from fiscal year 2011 to a record total of $11.98 billion in 2012, surpassing pre-recession levels. The previous high for overall state tax collections was $11.5 billion in 2008. Tennessee's total tax collections ranked 21st among all states in 2012.
The Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections is a product of the annual Census of Governments and provides a fiscal year summary of taxes collected by the 50 states for five broad categories of taxes including property taxes, sales and gross receipts taxes, license taxes, income taxes, and other taxes.
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TENNESSEE STATE TAX
COLLECTIONS, 2012
(U.S. Census) |
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General Sales |
$6,512,362
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Selective Sales |
$2,449,833 | Income
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$1,408,141 | Licenses
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$1,282,015 | Other
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$329,994 | | Property |
$0 |
While individual income taxes were the single largest source of state tax revenue in the nation at $280.4 billion in 2012, the state of Tennessee does not have a standard state income tax, but instead imposes a 6 percent flat tax on interest and dividend income only. This tax, known as the Hall Income Tax, represented only 1.2 percent of total tax collections in 2012, compared to 35.3 percent for that of the nation. Conversely, Tennessee's budget relies heavily on general sales tax revenue, ranking 4th highest in the nation for general sales tax collections as a percent of total taxes at 54.4 percent. This compares to a U.S. average rate of 30.5 percent.
Tennessee remains a low-tax state with a per capita total tax burden of $1,856 compared to that of the nation at $2,531. This ranks Tennessee as the 7th lowest total tax burden state in the nation.
For detailed 2012 Tennessee State Tax Collections, click HERE. For more information on the Census of Governments products, please visit www.census.gov/govs. |
The Tennessee State Data Center is always available to help with your specific data needs. TN SDC Serves as the lead state data center for the State of Tennessee and is housed at the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Please contact us with your specific data needs.
Sincerely,
Joan Snoderly, Director
Tennessee State Data Center |
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| New Extraction Tool for Local Employment Dynamics Data | |
Time series data created under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership provide unprecedented details about America's jobs, workers, and local economies and communities. Under the Partnership, states share Unemployment Insurance earnings data and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data with the Census Bureau. The LED integrates this administrative data with data from censuses and surveys to create statistics on employment, earnings, and job flows at detailed levels of geography and industry and for different demographic groups.
The LED flagship product--Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), provides information about trends in employment, turnover, hiring, job creation and job destruction, and average monthly earnings, with unprecedented details of geography, age, gender, and industry going back as far as 1990. Data on Firm Age and Firm Size characteristics are also available through the tool.
The new LED Extraction Tool allows streamlined access to the entire set of raw QWI data through an intuitive query-building interface. The easy-to-use tool provides comma separated value (CSV) files for the exact variables and characteristics requested by users. To begin extracting data, please go to http://ledextract.ces.census.gov/
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UPCOMING RELEASE:
County Business Patterns | | |
County Business Patterns: 2011 is set to be released April 30. These statistics provide the only detailed annual information on the number of establishments, employees, and quarterly and annual payroll for nearly 1,200 industries covered at the national, state and county levels. |
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CINCO de MAYO | |
Cinco de Mayo celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in which a Mexican force of 4,500 men faced 6,000 well-trained French soldiers. The battle lasted four hours and ended in a victory for the Mexican army under Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza. Along with Mexican Independence Day on Sept. 16, Cinco de Mayo has become a time to celebrate Mexican heritage and culture.
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Nationally, there are 33.6 million (10.8%) American residents
of Mexican origin, compared to 197,073 (3.1%) Tennessee residents of Mexican origin.
(American Community Survey, 2011)
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