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Growth tapering off in Metro Nashville

Metro Nashville picked up 2,342 new residents between 2016 and 2017, continuing a five-year slowdown in the county’s year-to-year growth, data from the U.S. Census Bureau show.



Metro Nashville / Davidson County is still growing, but its rate of growth is tapering off dramatically compared to several other metro counties in Tennessee. Shelby County has been losing residents since 2012, although the loss rate decreased moderately between 2016 and 2017. Source: Analysis of U.S. Census Bureau population estimates.

Metro Nashville / Davidson County is still growing, and its 2017 population of 691,243 residents makes it the state’s second-most-populous county behind Shelby County, which had a 2017 population of 936,961.

But after adding 13,724 residents between 2011 and 2012, Metro Nashville attracted between 10,000 and 11,000 new residents a year between 2012 and 2015, a comparably modest 7,616 between 2015 and 2016, and only 2,342 between 2016 and 2017.

Rutherford, Williamson, Knox and Hamilton counties all added more residents between 2016 and 2017 than Metro Nashville did. Shelby County has been losing residents since 2012.

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Ken Blake

The Data Reporter demonstrates data journalism techniques I teach in reporting courses at the Middle Tennessee State University School of Journalism. Free, online, video-based tutorials covering many of these techniques are available at drkblake.com.
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