Funeral services · Metro area · Tennessee
Funeral homes in the Jackson, TN metro area
How the Jackson, TN metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 19 out of 100: Low
Ranked #367 of 377 scored metro areas
#10 of 10 scored metro areas based in Tennessee
- Listings
- 35
- 8 chain locations (23%)
- Official establishments
- 18
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $10.2M
- On funerals · $140 a household
- Spending per listing
- $290K
- 57% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.8
- 2.3 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 184,569
- +2.2% since 2020
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What this means
The Jackson metro area scores 19 (low) on the Groundwork market score for funeral homes, ranking #367 of 377 scored metro areas and #10 of 10 scored metro areas based in Tennessee. That puts it in the bottom quarter of metro areas.
Household spending on funerals in the Jackson metro area comes to about $10.2M a year: $140 per household, 2% below the U.S. average. Spread across 35 funeral homes, that is $290K per home, 57% below the U.S. figure of $679K.
There are 35 funeral homes on map listings in the Jackson metro area as of September 2026. Of those, 8 are chain locations, or 23%, against 10% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 4.8, 2.3 times the U.S. rate of 2.1.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Jackson metro area was 18 in 2023. That is one for every 4,025 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. Population estimates show the Jackson metro area grew 2.2% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Jackson metro area compares
The same measures for Tennessee and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Jackson metro area | Tennessee | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.8 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $290K | $554K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 4,025 | 6,448 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +11.7% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.2% | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $140 | $132 | $143 |
| Median household income | $61,177 | $69,595 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 19 | 41 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 18
- Employees, 2023
- 82
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 358 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 15The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Jackson metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Jackson metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 184,569+2.2% since 2020
- Households
- 72,451
- Median age
- 39.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 66%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,711 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 106
- Median household income
- $61,177+30.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $79,447
- Median home value
- $185,300
- Jobs located here
- 84,298
- Daytime population
- 188,381Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Tennessee
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Chattanooga, TN-GA | 60 | 47 | 2.0 | $720K | +5.3% | #122 of 377 |
| 2Knoxville, TN | 53 | 78 | 2.1 | $694K | +6.9% | #159 of 377 |
| 3Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN | 49 | 148 | 1.8 | $631K | +8.7% | #184 of 377 |
| 4Cleveland, TN | 46 | 12 | 2.4 | $614K | +6.1% | #202 of 377 |
| 5Johnson City, TN | 43 | 22 | 2.5 | $596K | +4.3% | #225 of 377 |
| 6Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA | 42 | 36 | 2.7 | $587K | +2.3% | #235 of 377 |
| 7Morristown, TN | 41 | 14 | 2.9 | $513K | +7.9% | #243 of 377 |
| 8Clarksville, TN-KY | 38 | 28 | 2.2 | $450K | +8.5% | #263 of 377 |
| 9Memphis, TN-MS-AR | 34 | 115 | 2.2 | $552K | −0.3% | #286 of 377 |
| 10Jackson, TN | 19 | 35 | 4.8 | $290K | +2.2% | #367 of 377 |
Other business types in the Jackson metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Jackson, TN metro area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 35 funeral homes in the Jackson metro area. 8 of them (23%) are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 18 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in the Jackson, TN metro area spend on funerals?
About $10.2M a year, or $140 per household. That is 2% below the U.S. average (an index of 98, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 35 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $290K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 72,451 households in the Jackson metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Jackson, TN metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Jackson metro area has 4.8 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 2.3 times the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $290K, 57% below the U.S. figure of $679K. At the U.S. ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Jackson metro area would have about 15, against 35 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 4,025 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is the Jackson, TN metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Jackson metro area at 184,569 people in 2025, up 2.2% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 72,451 households. The median household income in the Jackson metro area is $61,177 a year, 24% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 30.5% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Jackson metro area scores 19 for funeral homes (low), #367 of 377 scored metro areas.
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