In raw numbers, Hamilton County was Tennessee’s fifth fastest growing county in 2022, gaining 5,655 residents, a 1.5% increase to 374,682.
Population numbers from 2022 were released by the U.S. Census Bureau over the past few weeks. The Tennessee State Data Center, housed at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research, launched a dashboard last week with analysis of the state’s population figures.
Statewide, Tennessee saw a 1.2% population gain of 82,988 in 2022, up from 42,732 in 2021.
Birth rates don’t explain the increase, as there were more deaths than births in 2022. The increase is largely due to migration, as 89,742 people moved to Tennessee last year. Hamilton County follows this statewide trend, seeing more deaths than births last year.
Hamilton’s growth in 2022 trails Knox County and two counties in the Nashville area: Rutherford and Wilson. Growth in Davidson County, which contains Nashville, trailed behind Hamilton last year.