Lafayette, Tennessee

Lafayette is in Macon County, which is in North Central Tennessee and smack up against the southern border of Kentucky. Lafayette is the county seat.

The 2010 population was 4,474, an increase of 589 residents from the 2000 census. Federal laws and such say we don’t see race or color, but the feds calculate the racial makeup of Lafayette as 97.87 percent white. Feds don’t see sex, either, but they know that for every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 81.2 men. Feds probably don’t recognize a partial man, but no doubt somebody could tell what that .2 man is.

Lafayette’s estimated 2019 population was 5,332. That’s near 900 new residents.

Wikipedia says Macon County is one of the top producers of Burleigh tobacco in Tennessee and the United states.

Rita Coolidge was born in Lafayette in 1945. She was on the Mad Dogs and Englishmen album in 1972.

If you get down on street level, Lafayette is a nice looking town, not too much jammed up. There are groups of cookie-cutter houses, but that is to be expected when your population goes up almost 1,500 people in 20 years.