With a 7.1% unemployment rate and 60% of the labor force fighting the commute to places like downtown Nashville, Hickman County, TN has a labor force with the rural work ethic that can be readily accessed. And, if you need professional personnel that tend to prefer to live and play in an urban environment, it doesn’t take much more time for them to take the less than an hour scenic drive to Hickman County than it does to fight the rush hour traffic into downtown Nashville.
In addition, Hickman County is one of only 2 counties in the Nashville/Davidson County Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) that are eligible for the highest level of incentives under Governor Bredesen’s and Tennessee Economic & Community Development’s Rural Opportunity Initiative (ROI). Source: http://www.tennessee.gov/ecd/gov07/docs/ToolKit.pdf
