No. 01 · For the record Rachel Hurley for Tennessee’s 5th Memphis · Dem. Primary · Aug 2026
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The district · District 5

They redrew the whole thing in three days.

From downtown Memphis to the edge of Middle Tennessee - 17 counties, drawn to be hard to win and hard to follow.

Map of the new Tennessee 5th Congressional District, stretching from Memphis northeast across West Tennessee into Middle Tennessee.
The new District 5. Adopted by the Tennessee General Assembly, May 2026.

Are you in it?

Type your address. It checks against the new line. Nothing is saved.

Where the line does the work.

Map of Memphis split three ways between Congressional Districts 5, 8, and 9, with the xAI Colossus site marked.

Memphis

Memphis got cut into three districts. District 5 takes downtown, the Medical District, South Memphis, and Frayser. District 8 and District 9 split the rest. The xAI Colossus site lands inside the line.

Who got put together

Memphis, two-thirds non-white, in one district with Williamson - the whitest and richest county in the state. Then fifteen rural counties between them.

CountyNon-whiteMedian income
Shelby Memphis*67%$63,767
Lauderdale42%$49,879
Montgomery*41%$75,613
Lake36%$28,814
Tipton*26%$74,127
Maury*24%$76,130
Dyer23%$58,154
Obion21%$54,613
Williamson*19%$135,594
Weakley15%$51,880
Henry14%$50,613
Hickman12%$68,247
Benton10%$51,746
Houston10%$59,576
Humphreys10%$60,616
Stewart9%$63,114
Lewis9%$56,285

* Split county - figures are whole-county, so the in-district share differs. The Memphis part of Shelby is more heavily Black than the county overall. Census ACS 2020-2024.

Map of the Tipton County split: Munford and Gilt Edge in District 5, Covington, Atoka, and Brighton out.

Tipton

Munford and Gilt Edge are in. Covington, the county seat, is out. So are Atoka and Brighton. Neighbors in the same county, sorted into different districts.

Map of Columbia with the District 5 boundary wrapping around the city to leave it out.

Columbia

Watch the line bend. District 5 wraps right around Columbia - the county seat and biggest city in Maury - to leave it out, while pulling in Spring Hill and Mount Pleasant on either side.

Map of the Williamson County split: Franklin and Thompson's Station in District 5, Brentwood out.

Williamson

Franklin and Thompson’s Station are in. Brentwood is out. A piece of the wealthiest county in Tennessee, carved off into the district.

Map of the Montgomery County split: Fort Campbell in District 5, Clarksville out.

Montgomery

Fort Campbell is in. Clarksville, the fifth-biggest city in the state, sits out, along with Austin Peay. The base is split off from the town built around it.

What the state released.

This is the official District 5 map. Pages of unlabeled roads and county slivers, no plain list of who’s in and who’s out. To see what the district actually does, you have to take it apart yourself.

The official Tennessee Comptroller map of Congressional District 5, a dense and hard-to-read tangle of roads and boundaries.

Boundary data: Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, U.S. Congressional districts adopted May 7, 2026.
Address lookup: OpenStreetMap / Nominatim. Base maps: OpenStreetMap and CARTO.