List of municipalities in Tennessee

Tennessee is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 346 municipalities in the state of Tennessee. Municipalities in the state are designated as "cities" or "towns". As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,564,494 Tennesseans, or just over 56% of the state's total population of 6,346,105, lived in municipalities. The remainder lived in unincorporated areas.[1]

Map of the United States with Tennessee highlighted
These directional signs in Crossville, photographed in 1937 by Ben Shahn as part of a New Deal program, helped travelers find their way to other Tennessee cities and towns.

Municipal charters

Before 1954, all Tennessee municipalities were established by private act of the state legislature and operated under charters established by private act of the legislature. As of 2007, 212 of the state's municipalities were operating under charters established by private act of the legislature. In 1953, amendments to the Tennessee Constitution prohibited subsequent incorporations by private act and provided for several new forms of municipal charter. Fourteen cities, including Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga, three of the state's four largest cities, are "home rule cities" organized under charters approved by referendum of the citizens. Home rule charters are authorized by Article XI, Section 9, of the Tennessee State Constitution, as amended in 1953. Other municipalities are incorporated under one of several standardized types of charter authorized by state statute:[2]

Some Tennessee municipalities are called "cities" and others are called "towns."[3] These terms do not have legal significance in Tennessee[4] and are not related to population, date of establishment, or type of municipal charter.

Under current state law (TCA Title 6), a minimum of 1,500 residents are required to incorporate as a new municipality under the mayor-alderman or city manager-commission charter, and a minimum of 5,000 residents are required to incorporate under a modified city manager-council charter. In general, unincorporated areas within three miles of an existing municipality (within five miles if the municipality has a population of 100,000 or more) are not permitted to incorporate as new municipalities. Provisions for incorporation were less restrictive in the past. The capital of Tennessee is Nashville

List of incorporated cities and towns
2019 Rank City 2019 Estimate[5] 2010 Census[6] Change County
1 Nashville †† 670,820 601,222 +11.58% Davidson
2 Memphis † 651,073 646,889 +0.65% Shelby
3 Knoxville † 187,603 178,874 +4.88% Knox
4 Chattanooga † 182,799 167,674 +9.02% Hamilton
5 Clarksville † 158,146 132,929 +18.97% Montgomery
6 Murfreesboro † 146,900 108,755 +35.07% Rutherford
7 Franklin † 83,097 62,487 +32.98% Williamson
8 Jackson † 67,191 65,211 +3.04% Madison
9 Johnson City 66,906 63,152 +5.94% Washington, Carter, Sullivan
10 Bartlett 59,440 54,613 +8.84% Shelby
11 Hendersonville 58,113 51,372 +13.12% Sumner
12 Kingsport 54,127 48,205 +12.29% Sullivan, Hawkins
13 Smyrna 51,586 39,974 +29.05% Rutherford
14 Collierville 51,040 43,965 +16.09% Shelby
15 Cleveland † 45,504 41,285 +10.22% Bradley
16 Spring Hill 43,769 29,036 +50.74% Maury, Williamson
17 Gallatin † 42,918 30,278 +41.75% Sumner
18 Brentwood 42,783 37,060 +15.44% Williamson
19 Columbia † 40,335 34,681 +16.30% Maury
20 Germantown 39,225 38,844 +0.98% Shelby
21 Mount Juliet 37,029 23,671 +56.43% Wilson
22 Lebanon † 36,479 26,190 +39.29% Wilson
23 La Vergne 35,716 32,588 +9.60% Rutherford
24 Cookeville † 34,706 30,435 +14.03% Putnam

References
  1. "Certified Population of Tennessee Incorporated Municipalities and Counties Archived 2011-12-11 at the Wayback Machine, State of Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, 1 July 2011.
  2. "Directory of Municipal Officials - Charter". University of Tennessee: Municipal Technical Advisory Service. Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
  3. "Tennessee 2000 Population Summary". Office of Local Government, Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury. Archived from the original on January 16, 2008. Retrieved 2007-10-15.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
  4. "State Tax Sharing, Fairness, and Local Government Finances in Tennessee" (PDF). Tennessee.gov. Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. January 2004. p. xiv. Retrieved 2008-11-07. There are 348 cities in Tennessee and each is characterized as either a city or a town (in our state, there is no legal distinction between the two).
  5. "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  6. "2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File". American FactFinder2. U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
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