Tennessee · NAICS 922 · Annual, 2025

Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in Tennessee

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 922 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (NAICS 922) employed about 19,900 people in Tennessee across roughly 600 establishments, with average annual pay of $84,840.

Employment in Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in Tennessee grew 21.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Tennessee than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.49). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 19,900. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 19,900Employment, 2025
  • 600Establishments
  • $84,840Avg. annual pay
  • 0.6%Share of Tennessee jobs
  • 0.49Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in Tennessee, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 15,800 to 19,900.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 15,800; 2005 15,900; 2006 16,100; 2007 16,200; 2008 16,600; 2009 16,600; 2010 16,800; 2011 16,600; 2012 16,500; 2013 16,700; 2014 16,800; 2015 16,600; 2016 16,500; 2017 16,600; 2018 16,500; 2019 16,400; 2020 16,300; 2021 15,900; 2022 16,100; 2023 16,700; 2024 19,400; 2025 19,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202519,856600$84,841 2.6%pub.
202419,354574$80,837 16.1%pub.
202316,669558$77,639 3.8%pub.
202216,067554$71,212 0.9%pub.
202115,917556$65,912 2.6%pub.
202016,348552$62,059 0.1%pub.
201916,359545$59,538 0.8%pub.
201816,493557$57,313 0.4%pub.
201716,557569$54,776 0.6%pub.
201616,463573$52,434 0.6%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

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Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for justice, public order, and safety activities in Tennessee. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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