Tennessee district questions

Plain answers to what this map is most often asked.

Common questions about Tennessee districts

What district am I in?

Enter your address in the search box, or click your location on the map above, and the tool lists every district that contains that exact point — your county, your Tennessee Senate and House districts, your U.S. House district, your school district, your city or town and your ZIP code — along with who represents you where a roster exists.

How do I find out what Tennessee House district I'm in?

Search your address or click your location on the map. The tool shows your Tennessee House district and the Representative who currently holds the seat, read each week from the Tennessee General Assembly's own district map. A seat the General Assembly lists as vacant is shown as vacant.

How many Senate and House districts does Tennessee have?

Thirty-three Senate districts and ninety-nine House districts, and the app draws all of both chambers. The General Assembly redraws them after each census.

Which congressional map does this use?

The one your current member of Congress was elected from. Tennessee redrew its congressional districts in 2026 for the November election, and the members elected from the new map take their seats on 3 January 2027. Until then the app draws the map the sitting members represent, so the name on the card is the person who represents you today. It moves to the new map when they are sworn in.

What county am I in, and who runs it?

Pick a point and the tool names your county — all 95 of them are carried — and your county commission district, because every Tennessee county elects its commission from districts and the state publishes every county's districts. The members are published county by county, on each county's own pages, so the card names your commissioners in the counties whose lists have been read, and more counties are added as their lists are read. Where a county's list has not been read yet, the card says so rather than leaving you guessing. In Nashville-Davidson, Lynchburg-Moore County and Hartsville-Trousdale County the county and its city are one government, and the card says so.

Why do I see two school districts?

In fifteen Tennessee cities a city or special school district runs the lower grades and the county's district runs the high school, so the app shows both, each with the grades the Census records for it. Everywhere else one district runs every grade.

Who represents me in Nashville and in Washington?

Pick a location to see your Tennessee Senate district, Tennessee House district and U.S. House district, each with the member who currently holds the seat. Each state legislator's card carries a party, an e-mail and a link to their page on the General Assembly's site, which is where their office and telephone are published. A seat the General Assembly lists as vacant says so instead of naming anyone.

Why does my card show fewer layers than other districtry states?

Because Tennessee is new here. This instance launched with what national publishers and the state's own map service can answer for any point on day one: your county, your U.S. House district, both state chambers, your school district, your city or town, your ZIP code and the nearest post office, police station and fire station. County commission districts and, county by county, their members, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' trust land with its Tribal Chief and Tribal Council, school board districts in eighteen counties, and the mayor and council of each of its 28 cities and towns above 25,000 people are here now; the councils of its smaller cities and towns, and its school board members, come as each one is sourced and verified. The app would rather answer twelve things it can prove than twenty it cannot.

Is this an official government tool?

No. districtry is an independent civic project that reads public data and cites its sources. It never guesses an officeholder: where no verifiable roster exists, the card links the official body instead of naming someone. Confirm anything official with the relevant government office.

Not for legal or official use. These answers describe what the map shows and where it gets it. Boundary and roster data come from public sources that disclaim legal precision — confirm anything official with the relevant government office.