College Grove, TN

Diversity

6.83 million people call Tennessee home, of which 96.9 percent are citizens. 5.04 percent of Tennessee inhabitants were born outside of the state as of 2019. (344k people).

Tennessee has 4.42 times as many White (non-Hispanic) residents than any other race or ethnicity in 2019 (5.01M). The second and third most prevalent ethnic groupings were 1.13 million Black or African American (non-Hispanic) and 266 thousand White (Hispanic) inhabitants.

Spanish (spoken by 287,350 people), Arabic (spoken by 25,793 people), and Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) are the three most often used foreign languages in Tennessee (16,374 speakers).

Ethnicity and Race

Tennessee has 4.42 times as many White (non-Hispanic) residents than any other race or ethnicity in 2019 (5.01M). The second and third most prevalent ethnic groupings were 1.13 million Black or African American (non-Hispanic) and 266 thousand White (Hispanic) inhabitants.

Hispanics make up 5.7% of the population of Tennessee (389k people).

Other Language Speakers

7.57 percent of Tennessee residents speak a language other than English, which is less than the 22 percent national average.

Spanish was the most widely spoken non-English language in Tennessee in 2019. Native Spanish speakers comprise 4.47 percent of Tennessee's total population. The next two most frequent languages are Arabic (0.402%) and Chinese (0.255%) (including Mandarin and Cantonese).

Population Born Abroad

5.04 percent of Tennessee residents (344,00) were foreign-born as of 2019, which is less than the country's average of 13.7 percent. Tennessee had 4.93 percent of its population born outside the state as of 2018, a growing percentage.

By Nativity, Age

The median age of all Tennessee residents in 2019 was 39. The median age of citizens of domestic birth was 39, which was generally lower than the median age of citizens of foreign birth, which was 40. But the population of Tennessee is aging. Tennessee citizens' average age was 39 in 2018.

Worldwide Diversity

Mexico accounted for 90,399 of the foreign-born population of Tennessee in 2019. Mexico was followed by India with 25,162 and Guatemala with 22,860 of these residents.

Citizenship

Citizenship As of 2019, 96.9% of Tennessee residents identified as US citizens, which is greater than the 93.4 percent national average. Tennessee has 96.9 percent of its population who were US citizens in 2018, indicating a declining citizenship rate.

Veterans

Veterans Tennessee has 1.56 times more military troops than any other state that participated in the Vietnam War.

Economy

Tennessee has a median household income of $56,071. Williamson County, Tennessee had Tennessee's highest median household income in 2019 with a value of $115,507, followed by Wilson County, Tennessee, and Rutherford County, Tennessee, with respective values of $80,071 and $69,397.

In Tennessee, the average income of males is $1.35 times greater than that of females, who earn $46,943. Tennessee's income inequality, as determined by the Gini index, is lower than the national average at 0.466.

Tennessee's economy provides jobs for 3,032,000 people. The highest paying industries in Tennessee are Spectator sports ($162,213), Petroleum refining ($143,198), and Air transportation ($134,707). The largest industries in Tennessee are Restaurants & Food Services (215,129 people), Construction (181,422 people), and Elementary & Secondary Schools (175,078 people).