Tennessee's Fastest Growing Cities (Memphis, Knoxville: to live, young professionals, moving to)

[goodbyehollywood]

CNN updated the list. Knoxville clocked in at 101, followed by the Nashville SMSA at 115. Clarksville, Chattanooga and even Memphis were on there, too. Here's the link:

The 258 fastest growing U.S. cities - Jun. 27, 2007


Not a surprise to any of us who live here!

[firepower]

Good link!

[Pimpy]

Originally Posted by goodbyehollywood

CNN updated the list. Knoxville clocked in at 101, followed by the Nashville SMSA at 115. Clarksville, Chattanooga and even Memphis were on there, too. Here's the link:

The 258 fastest growing U.S. cities - Jun. 27, 2007


Not a surprise to any of us who live here!

Making that list is not a big deal, considering that every "city" in the United States with 100,000 or more in population was on there, including New Orleans which lost half its population during the measured time period.

Memphis and Chattanooga had population trends that were barely in the positive, clocking in at 0.2% growth.

[Celsius]

Places like Knoxville and Chattanooga aren't going to see a lot of growth within the city limits persay for various reasons (boundaries, topography, etc,) , but it's the outlying areas or counties surrounding these cities that produce the growth... Sort of like what's been happening in Atlanta for the past 25 years. There have been numerous occasions where Atlanta (city) did not add but very few residents while on-the-other-hand, the now 21 or 22 counties that make up the Atlanta metro sometimes adds upward of 100,000 new residences a year. Nashville has a larger city population than Atlanta and may always have that, but no one would argue that Nashville is a bigger city.

[goodbyehollywood]

Originally Posted by Pimpy

Making that list is not a big deal, considering that every "city" in the United States with 100,000 or more in population was on there, including New Orleans which lost half its population during the measured time period.

I didn't say it was a big deal; I just thought it might be interesting to some people. Or not.

[hiknapster]

Knoxville grew by one percent according to the study. That's not much. I'd love to see the study for this year, see where people are going now, if they are going anywhere at all.

[john t]

Knoxville's growth has averaged 1.2% per year since 1970. There were a few years of negative growth in the 80s when jobs left. I can see Knoxville having negative growth again due to dismal quality job growth. We may be experiencing it sooner than we think. Seems many are only concerned about recruiting wealthy retirees to live here instead of the long term problem of keeping young professionals.

[Grizzlybear34]

Florida is full of these "wealthy retirees" as you say. It is up to the state and local leadership to recruit corporations into areas to bring in jobs. Tennessee has a lot going for it with its beauty and location. With some effort, this can be accomplished.

Therein lies the quandry. Many on this board moved here to have space, and leave the congestion of the areas that they formerly lived. But, if you want your area to thrive and attract young professionals, you need to have the attractions and growth, new jobs etc.

[JMT]

Originally Posted by goodbyehollywood

CNN updated the list. Knoxville clocked in at 101, followed by the Nashville SMSA at 115. Clarksville, Chattanooga and even Memphis were on there, too. Here's the link:

The 258 fastest growing U.S. cities - Jun. 27, 2007


Not a surprise to any of us who live here!

This is no fault of yours, goodbyehollywood, but rather CNN for calling this list "The 258 fastest growing U.S. cities" when this list is merely the 258 largest cities in the U.S. and their growth rate in the last year. It is a very misleading title since a whole bunch of cities on this didn't grow at all and actually lost population. For CNN to imply that the only cities in the US that grew are those on this list is incredibly misleading and poor journalism.

[daniellefort]

Well nice to see not everyone from FL is moving to TN. We have 11 of the fastest growing cities with 2 in the top 5. No wonder so many people want to leave FL. Too many people moving in.