Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area

The Mid-State
Nashville-Davidson—Murfreesboro—Franklin, TN, Metropolitan Statistical Area
Country	United States
State(s)	Tennessee
Largest city	Nashville
Other cities	Murfreesboro, Franklin
Area
• Total	7,484 sq mi (19,380 km2)
Highest elevation	2,092 ft (638 m)
Lowest elevation	359 ft (109 m)
Population (2016 est.)
• Total	1,865,298
• Rank	36th in the U.S.
• Density	240/sq mi (106/km2)

The Nashville metropolitan area is centered on Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. It includes 14 counties in Middle Tennessee.

The Office of Management and Budget defines the metro area as the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN, Metropolitan Statistical Area, a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) designated for statistical use by the United States Census Bureau and other agencies. The area is the 36th largest MSA in the United States and is the largest metropolitan area in the state of Tennessee, although Nashville is the second largest city in the state to Memphis.

The metropolitan statistical area was first designated in 1950 and initially included only Davidson County. As surrounding counties increased in population and population densities and in the number of the number of their residents employed in Davidson County, the OMB added new counties to the MSA. Today, the metro area includes Davidson and 13 other counties.

Principal cities in the Nashville metro area include:

* County was not a part of this statistical area at the time of this Census and the county's population is not included in the total.

The Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro, TN, Combined Statistical Area (CSA) is the result of the addition of the Micropolitan Statistical Areas of Shelbyville (Bedford County), Lawrenceburg (Lawrence County) and Lewisburg (Marshall County) to the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The estimated population of the CSA as of July 1, 2016, was 1,987,778.

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