Nashville has grown twice the rate of the nation and substantially more than the whole of Tennessee.
The recent release of 2020 census data confirms what many city officials and residents had a hunch about. Each decade the census gives a detailed look into population changes across the country.
Nashville is feeling the tension of growth on its housing supply and transportation options. But several peer cities are outpacing Nashville, which Metro Planning Department researcher Greg Claxton says could be good.
“We’ve got peers that we can work with and think about: Like, how are they managing and how do we address kind of the issues we’re facing as we figure out the city we want to be in the future?”
The fastest growing areas in Nashville include downtown, in and around Berry Hill, and the Southeast area close to the county line. White and Hispanic residents have made the largest leaps in growth. The Black population grew the least between 2010 and 2020.
The planning department is getting to work mapping how to apply this data to new boundaries for Metro Council and school board districts.
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