Nashville Area Adds 100 People Daily: Census Bureau

NASHVILLE, TN — The 14-county Nashville region grew by roughly 100 people per day between July 2015 and July 2016, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Census said the region grew from 1,828,961 to 1,865,298 in that 12-month period. That 36,337 average daily growth is roughly 100 people, essentially matching the 36,435 the area netted between 2014 and 2015.

The 14 counties in the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area are Davidson, Sumner, Wilson, Cheatham, Dickson, Maury, Robertson, Rutherford, Williamson, Cannon, Hickman, Macon, Smith and Trousdale. It thus includes Murfreesboro, which was the 13th fastest-growing city in the nation last year, and Rutherford, Wilson and Williamson counties are among the 50 fastest growing counties nationwide.

In the six years since the last census, the Nashville area has grown 11.6 percent, the bureau said.

Of that 100 or so daily growth, 72 were in-movers with the remaining 28 the net increase from births and deaths.

At the current rate, the Nashville area will pass 2 million people in time for the 2020 census.

The national population is growing at a clip of 0.7 percent annually and Nashville's 2 percent growth matches up roughly with Charlotte, N.C., a city to which it is oft-compared. The Nashville area is growing at a slower rate than other rival cities like Austin, Texas, and Raleigh, N.C., though it is adding more people than the latter.

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