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West Tennessee is by slight amounts less populous and smaller in land area than the other two Grand Divisions. At the 2020 census, West Tennessee had 1,557,649 inhabitants living in its 21 counties, a decrease of 4,992, or 0.32%, over the 2010 figure of 1,562,650. [35]
Tennessee is the fifteenth most populous state in the United States with a population of 7,051,339 as of 2022, and has the twentieth-highest population density. [1] The 2020 United States census reported its population to be 6,916,897.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Here are the biggest increases and decreases in population in the state of Tennessee and the United States.
Haywood County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the region known as West Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,864. Its county seat and largest city is Brownsville. [2] It is one of only two remaining counties in Tennessee, along with Shelby County, with a majority African-American population.
What's ahead for Tennessee? The state's population of those 65 and older was 17.3% of the total in 2022, according to the U.S. Census. But that percentage is expected to soar by more than 300,000 ...
Partly because of West Tennessee's history of slavery, it has had a higher concentration of African Americans in the population. In the census in 2000, West Tennessee's population was found to be 37% black, while in Middle and East Tennessee, black people made up 12% and 6% of their respective populations. [11]
Shelby County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Tennessee.As of the 2020 census, the population was 929,744. [3] It is the largest of the state's 95 counties, both in terms of population and geographic area.