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Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance), Tennessee

169,349 Black residents · 24.6% of the place

In the published counts, Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance), Tennessee, holds 169,349 Black residents among 689,447 people in all — a Black share of 24.6%, against the statewide 15.8%.

Black share of state population — Tennessee highlighted — the state in the national tile map, shaded by the Black share of each state's population. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census (PL 94-171), Table P1.

Civic Snapshot

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	689,447
Black residents (alone), 2020	169,349
Black share of the place, 2020	24.6%
Rank by Black population among Tennessee places	2 of 504

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.

Population Trend

The published record across two censuses for Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance): 170,907 Black residents in 2010, 169,349 in 2020 — declined by 0.9% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 28.4% to 24.6%.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.

The Record

Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) stands in the gazetteer as one of the 504 places the Census Bureau counts in Tennessee. Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance)'s Black population of 169,349 ranks 2 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

In Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance), a place of 689,447, institutions are carried close — the congregation, the school, the business on the main street. The federal counts record them as counts; this entry records Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) itself, fixed by name, state, population, and share like every other entry in the book.