Milo is a Republican stronghold. About 15% of voters here vote Democratic and 85% Republican.
About 58% of adults in Milo typically vote, near the U.S. average of about 62%. Among adults in Milo, ~9% vote Democratic, ~50% Republican, and ~41% don't vote. The map below shows estimated turnout by block group.
How Milo compares
Among cities within 25 miles, Milo leans more Republican than 37 of 61 neighbors.
Milo runs about 41 points more Republican than Tennessee as a whole.
Why Milo leans the way it does
This analysis examined 14,881 data points per city to find what predicts political lean and turnout. The items below are a few correlations that stood out for Milo, not a ranked or complete list of what matters most.
Areas with low college attainment vote Republican. About 4% of adults in Milo hold a bachelor's degree, about 18 points below the Tennessee average of 22%. A high family-household share predicts Republican voting, and about 87% of households in Milo are family households, above 98% of cities.
Walkability and Republican lean
Places with a low walkability score tend to lean Republican; Milo, TN sits in the bottom tenth nationally on this measure. A walkable street grid does not change how people vote; it mostly reflects how urban a place is.
Why turnout in Milo looks the way it does
Areas with limited routine healthcare access turn out at lower rates. Milo is in the bottom quarter nationally for routine-care measures such as insurance coverage, preventive screenings, and dental visits. The dental-visit rate here is about 46%, about 10 points below the Tennessee average of 56%. Low high-school completion lines up with lower turnout, and about 59% of adults in Milo have completed high school, in the bottom fraction of cities. High-crime urban areas turn out at lower rates, and Milo sits in the top 15% on a violent-crime measure. Learn more about the findings and methodology on the political spectrum map.
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Sources and methodology
Precinct-level voting records used to fit the model come from Tennessee Secretary of State, Division of Elections, distributed by the Voting and Election Science Team. Demographic inputs come from the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates and the 2020 Decennial Census). Health and environmental inputs come from the CDC (PLACES and the Environmental Justice Index). Land cover comes from the USGS and EPA. Election-day and lead-up weather come from PRISM 4km daily grids and the NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network. Mail-voting and election-administration patterns come from the MIT Election Lab's Survey of the Performance of American Elections. Block-group crime detail comes from CrimeGrade. Internet data and modeling support provided by ISPreports.org.
Modeling and analysis by the BestNeighborhood data science team. Full methodology and findings: political spectrum map.
Methodology reviewed by the BestNeighborhood data team. Last updated May 2026.