Tennessee

Population Density
People per square mile, 1990:	118.3
People per square mile, 2000:	133.2

Year	Population		Year	Population		Year	Population
1790	35691		1880	1,542,359		1970	3,926,018
1800	105,602		1890	1,767,518		1980	4,591,023
1810	261,727		1900	2,020,616		1990	4,877,185
1820	422,823		1910	2,184,789		2000	5,689,283
1830	681,904		1920	2,337,885		2010	6,230,852
1840	829,210		1930	2,616,556		2020	6,780,670
1850	1,002,717		1940	2,915,841		2030	7,380,634
1860	1,109,801		1950	3,291,718
1870	1,258,520		1960	3,567,089

Population By County

	Census 2000 Population	Change from 1990	Percent Change
TENNESSEE	5,689,283	812,098	16.7
Anderson County	71,330	3,080	4.5
Bedford County	37,586	7,175	23.6
Benton County	16,537	2,013	13.9
Bledsoe County	12,367	2,698	27.9
Blount County	105,823	19,854	23.1
Bradley County	87,965	14,253	19.3
Campbell County	39,854	4,775	13.6
Cannon County	12,826	2,359	22.5
Carroll County	29,475	1,961	7.1
Carter County	56,742	5,237	10.2
Cheatham County	35,912	8,772	32.3
Chester County	15,540	2,721	21.2
Claiborne County	29,862	3,725	14.3
Clay County	7,976	738	10.2
Cocke County	33,565	4,424	15.2
Coffee County	48,014	7,675	19.0
Crockett County	14,532	1,154	8.6
Cumberland County	46,802	12,066	34.7
Davidson County	569,891	59,107	11.6
Decatur County	11,731	1,259	12.0
DeKalb County	17,423	3,063	21.3
Dickson County	43,156	8,095	23.1
Dyer County	37,279	2,425	7.0
Fayette County	28,806	3,247	12.7
Fentress County	16,625	1,956	13.3
Franklin County	39,270	4,545	13.1
Gibson County	48,152	1,837	4.0
Giles County	29,447	3,706	14.4
Grainger County	20,659	3,564	20.8
Greene County	62,909	7,056	12.6
Grundy County	14,332	970	7.3
Hamblen County	58,128	7,648	15.2
Hamilton County	307,896	22,360	7.8
Hancock County	6,786	47	0.7
Hardeman County	28,105	4,728	20.2
Hardin County	25,578	2,945	13.0
Hawkins County	53,563	8,998	20.2
Haywood County	19,797	360	1.9
Henderson County	25,522	3,678	16.8
Henry County	31,115	3,227	11.6
Hickman County	22,295	5,541	33.1
Houston County	8,088	1,070	15.2
Humphreys County	17,929	2,134	13.5
Jackson County	10,984	1,687	18.1
Jefferson County	44,294	11,278	34.2
Johnson County	17,499	3,733	27.1
Knox County	382,032	46,283	13.8
Lake County	7,954	825	11.6
Lauderdale County	27,101	3,610	15.4
Lawrence County	39,926	4,623	13.1
Lewis County	11,367	2,120	22.9
Lincoln County	31,340	3,183	11.3
Loudon County	39,086	7,831	25.1
McMinn County	49,015	6,632	15.6
McNairy County	24,653	2,231	10.0
Macon County	20,386	4,480	28.2
Madison County	91,837	13,855	17.8
Marion County	27,776	2,916	11.7
Marshall County	26,767	5,228	24.3
Maury County	69,498	14,686	26.8
Meigs County	11,086	3,053	38.0
Monroe County	38,961	8,420	27.6
Montgomery County	134,768	34,270	34.1
Moore County	5,740	1,019	21.6
Morgan County	19,757	2,457	14.2
Obion County	32,450	733	2.3
Overton County	20,118	2,482	14.1
Perry County	7,631	1,019	15.4
Pickett County	4,945	397	8.7
Polk County	16,050	2,407	17.6
Putnam County	62,315	10,942	21.3
Rhea County	28,400	4,056	16.7
Roane County	51,910	4,683	9.9
Robertson County	54,433	12,939	31.2
Rutherford County	182,023	63,453	53.5
Scott County	21,127	2,769	15.1
Sequatchie County	11,370	2,507	28.3
Sevier County	71,170	20,127	39.4
Shelby County	897,472	71,142	8.6
Smith County	17,712	3,569	25.2
Stewart County	12,370	2,891	30.5
Sullivan County	153,048	9,452	6.6
Sumner County	130,449	27,168	26.3
Tipton County	51,271	13,703	36.5
Trousdale County	7,259	1,339	22.6
Unicoi County	17,667	1,118	6.8
Union County	17,808	4,114	30.0
Van Buren County	5,508	662	13.7
Warren County	38,276	5,284	16.0
Washington County	107,198	14,883	16.1
Wayne County	16,842	2,907	20.9
Weakley County	34,895	2,923	9.1
White County	23,102	3,012	15.0
Williamson County	126,638	45,617	56.3
Wilson County	88,809	21,134	31.2

SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census

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