Where your competition is in Tennessee
The largest concentrations of locksmith businesses in our Tennessee data are in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Clarksville, Chattanooga, Sevierville, Hendersonville and Johnson City. Competition for the map pack is heaviest there, and so is the reward: the same review count that dominates a small town is invisible in Memphis.
The map pack in Tennessee
The map pack is a three-slot race, and in Tennessee it is won by review count and recency far more than by rating: 86.4% of Tennessee locksmith businesses are already at 4.5 stars or better, so stars do not separate anyone. The 75th percentile is 244 reviews and the 90th is 464. Those are the numbers to plan around, not the median.
The website gap in Tennessee
Website presence in Tennessee: 73.5% of locksmith businesses link one, 26.5% do not. The national figure is 22.2% without. Google and the AI answer engines both use the site to confirm what you do and where, so a missing site costs more than the leads it would have produced on its own.
Hours and after-hours calls
31.1% of Tennessee locksmith businesses list themselves as open 24 hours. If you take after-hours calls, say so in your profile hours, because Google shows "Closed" in red on a profile that says it is closed. If you do not, list real hours and let missed-call text-back cover the gap, so the caller gets a reply instead of dialing the next name.
How Tennessee compares
Of the 46 states in our data, Tennessee ranks 14th for the number of locksmith businesses, 5th for median review count, and 11th for the share with no website, which leaves more room than most states for a shop that builds a real site. The review bar is higher than in most of the country, so plan on a steady review habit rather than a one-time push.
| State | Listed | Median reviews | No site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 132 | 104 | 26.5% |
| Alabama | 90 | 61 | 40% |
| Florida | 703 | 70 | 18.1% |
| Georgia | 282 | 63 | 25.5% |
| Kentucky | 51 | 58 | 23.5% |
| Maryland | 117 | 52 | 22.2% |
| Mississippi | 45 | 45 | 37.8% |
| North Carolina | 143 | 76 | 22.4% |
| South Carolina | 97 | 62 | 20.6% |
What to do first in Tennessee
- Put up a real website if you are in the 26.5% without one. Service pages, city pages for Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, tap-to-call on every screen.
- Set a review velocity. One review per job day, asked at the door, moves a 104-review shop past the Tennessee 75th percentile (244) within a year. The guides have the scripts.
- Finish the Google profile: primary category, every service you offer, real job photos, and hours that match reality. It is free and it is where Tennessee customers decide.
- Turn on missed-call text-back. Run the calculator with your own numbers to see what unanswered calls cost.
- Then, and only then, spend on ads. Pointed at a profile with 104 reviews and no website, ads pay for your competitor's education. Pointed at a finished profile, they work.
The full national picture, with percentiles, ratings and hours, is in the benchmark report. The method is on the about page.