From Davis Hunt, The Pamphleteer, March 26, 2026 - The US Census Bureau released new data last night. The headline grabber is that population growth slowed due to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts. In short, fewer immigrants are coming into the country.
The decline hit urban areas the hardest. Every single Metro area in the country saw net immigration fall. In most areas, it fell over 50 percent. In Nashville, it fell by 33 percent, but the lion’s share of the city’s growth continues to come from immigrants.
Nashville gained an additional 9,281 residents between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025 driven entirely by births and immigration to the city. Immigrants accounted for 63 percent of that growth. The year prior, they accounted for 84 percent of the city's growth.
The pattern of American citizens leaving Davidson County and immigrants moving in is still the best way to frame the city’s growth. Nashville lost 925 citizens last year and 2,741 the year before, a pattern that’s held for over ten years now.
Nashville inherits the bulk of the state’s immigrants. In total 17,990 people moved into the state from another country, 33 percent of whom moved to Davidson County and 20 percent of whom moved to another county in the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area which includes surrounding counties.
As American citizens continued to leave the city proper, 16,967 moved into the MSA. Like everywhere else, immigration to the MSA fell compared to last year, but domestic migration actually increased by 15 percent showing the enduring appeal of the ring counties.
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