Nashville metro area population.

Source: Census Population Estimates, Vintage 2025. Metro totals cover the full metropolitan statistical area; city figures cover their legal boundaries. Map: Census 2025 cartographic boundaries. Sources and boundary details.

All annual estimates below come from Vintage 2025, so earlier years include the Census Bureau's revisions in this release.

The April 1, 2020 estimates base was 2,014,440. The headline 2020-to-2025 change uses that base, rather than the July 2020 annual estimate above. Source: Census CBSA population estimates.

55 incorporated places and consolidated governments in our city dataset are mapped to this CBSA. Each place is assigned using its largest-population county. These are whole-place populations, which can cross metro boundaries.

This list excludes unincorporated areas, Census-designated places and townships. It does not sum to the metro total and is not a complete list of communities inside the metro. A flagged place has counties in more than one CBSA.

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Consolidated-government rows cover the full government area. Separately incorporated component places are also listed and can overlap that figure. Do not add these rows together. The CSV's sumlev column distinguishes consolidated governments (170) from places (162).

Source: Census place estimates, Vintage 2025; Census 2025 place-by-county population for the representative county; OMB July 2023 delineations for the place mapping. Growth uses each place's April 2020 estimates base.

The metro's overall price level was 3.7% below the U.S. average in 2024. Regional Price Parities compare prices across areas; they do not measure a household's spending.

Source: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024, metropolitan statistical area geography. The rent index is a price comparison, not a monthly rent estimate. See the Nashville cost-of-living breakdown.

• Place population: Census city and town population estimates, Vintage 2025. Whole-place and consolidated-government July 2025 populations and April 2020 estimates bases; used for the city comparison, member table and CSV.
• Metro population: Census Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025. Released March 2026. A metropolitan statistical area groups counties around an urban core, including communities connected by commuting. Full metropolitan statistical area totals, July 1 estimates; 2020-to-2025 change starts at the April 2020 estimates base. Metro titles and state coverage follow this population release.
• Member mapping: OMB July 2023 CBSA delineations, joined through each place's largest-population county. Member assignment does not clip place populations to metro boundaries. Full consolidated governments are kept and their balances are excluded. Separately incorporated component places remain listed and can overlap the consolidated figure.
• Boundaries: Census 2025 cartographic files, generalized at 1:500,000 and clipped to shorelines. These outlines identify the geography; they are not survey boundaries. Population covers each complete county, including areas omitted by map generalization. County membership uses the same Census metro estimates, following OMB July 2023 delineations. The wider CSA outline is visual context and supplies no statistics.
• Prices: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. All-items and housing-rent indexes at metro geography; U.S. average = 100.

A combined statistical area (CSA) joins adjacent metropolitan or micropolitan areas and covers a different geography. This metro belongs to the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro, TN CSA. The published figures describe the metropolitan statistical area. Custom totals in the county explorer are labelled separately; they do not change the published metro figures.

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July 1, 2025 is the latest Census metro estimate. Next Census metro estimates are scheduled for March 2027. Census release schedule.