Nashville metropolitan area
The Nashville metropolitan area is centered on Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. It includes 13 counties in Middle Tennessee, reduced from 14 in September 2018 when Hickman County was removed.
The Office of Management and Budget's defines the metro area for statistical use by the United States Census Bureau and other agencies. The area is the 36th largest MSA in the United States and is the largest metropolitan area in the state of Tennessee.
The metropolitan statistical area was first designated in 1950 and initially included only Davidson County. As surrounding counties increased in population and population densities and in the number of their residents employed in Davidson County, the OMB added new counties to the MSA. Today, the metro area includes Davidson and 12 other counties.Cities and towns
Anchor city
- Nashville
Principal cities or communities with over 75,000 inhabitants
- Murfreesboro
- Franklin
Satellite cities or communities with more than 50,000 inhabitants
- Hendersonville
- Smyrna
Suburbs with 25,000 to 50,000 inhabitants
- Brentwood
- Columbia
- Donelson
- Gallatin
- Hermitage
- La Vergne
- Lebanon
- Madison
- Mount Juliet
- Spring Hill
Suburbs with 10,000 to 25,000 inhabitants
- Dickson
- Goodlettsville
- Nolensville
- Old Hickory
- Portland
- Springfield
- White House
Suburbs with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants
- Ashland City
- Belle Meade
- Bethpage
- Burns
- Carthage
- Charlotte
- Coopertown
- Cross Plains
- Fairview
- Forest Hills
- Gordonsville
- Greenbrier
- Green Hill
- Hartsville
- Kingston Springs
- Lafayette
- Lakewood
- Millersville
- Mount Pleasant
- Oak Hill
- Pegram
- Pleasant View
- Red Boiling Springs
- Ridgetop
- Rural Hill
- South Carthage
- Thompson's Station
- Watertown
- Westmoreland
- White Bluff
- Woodbury
Suburbs with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants
- Adams
- Auburntown
- Berry Hill
- Cedar Hill
- Eagleville
- Mitchellville
- Orlinda
- Slayden
- Vanleer
- Walterhill
* County was not a part of this statistical area at the time of this Census and the county's population is not included in the total.The Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro, TN, Combined Statistical Area is the result of the addition of the Micropolitan Statistical Areas of Shelbyville, Lawrenceburg and Lewisburg to the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The estimated population of the CSA as of July 1, 2019, was 2,087,725.
