In late December, the Tennessee State Data Center covered the 2022 Population Estimate release from the Census Bureau that showed the state added 83,000 new residents between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022. That was the largest one-year increase the state has seen since 2007.
81,646 more people moved into Tennessee in 2022 than moved out-a one-year record for the state. Similar-sized increases were observed in nearby Georgia and the Carolinas, with much larger gains found in Florida and Texas. In both 2021 and 2022, the South region of the U.S. was the only area of the country that added population via domestic migration. California, New York and Illinois recorded the largest net domestic migration losses.
If there was an unexpected event in the 2022 population estimates, it was the “bump” in the number of births in Tennessee, up 3.4 percent from the prior year.
