# Stats and Facts About Tennessee, 226th Anniversary, and More

| Tennessee's 226th Anniversary of Statehood (1796): June 1, 2022
Earlier this week, we celebrated Tennessee's statehood anniversary. Enjoy these fun facts, figures, and statistics about the Volunteer State.

Tennessee joined the Union on June 1, 1796. Explore the stats and facts below to learn more about the 16th state to join the Union, its people, demographics, geographic areas, and more. 
**Learn More**Population and Demographics of Tennessee
As of July 1, 2021, the population of Tennessee was estimated to be 6,975,218. This represents an increase of 0.9% from the 2020 Census count of 6,910,840. Discover more about the state's demographics.
**Explore TN Demographics**You May Be Interested InAbout Geographic Areas
Tennessee has 428 places, 347 incorporated places and 81 census designated places. The incorporated places consist of 182 cities, 162 towns, 1 metropolitan government, 1 with no descriptor, and 1 balance of county for the portion of Nashville-Davidson consolidated city outside the separately incorporated places in Davidson County. The minimum population for incorporation in Tennessee is 1,500. Incorporated places are dependent within county subdivision. Hartsville-Trousdale is coextensive with Trousdale County, Lynchburg-Moore County is coextensive with Moore County, and Nashville-Davidson is coextensive with Davidson County.

Tennessee has one consolidated city, Nashville-Davidson, which is coextensive with Davidson County. Nashville-Davidson contains the separately incorporated places of Belle Meade, Berry Hill, Forest Hills, Lakewood, and Oak Hill cities, and the part of Goodlettsville city and the part of Ridgetop town in Davidson County. 

Tennessee has 1,497 census tracts, 4,125 block groups, and 240,116 census blocks.
**More Geographic Info**New Business Formations in Tennessee
Our Business Formation Statistics (BFS) provide timely and high-frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States. BFS measures business initiation activity and the cycle from initiation to realized business formation. Get an early look at business formation activity within the U.S. at a detailed state and regional level.
**View Tennessee BFS**Tennessee Population Near 7 Million in 2020
The Volunteer State added 564,735 people between 2010 and 2020, an 8.9% increase to 6,910,840.
**Tennessee: 2020 Census**Monthly State Retail Sales: Tennessee
Monthly State Retail Sales is a Census Bureau experimental data product featuring modeled state-level retail sales. This is a blended data product using Monthly Retail Trade Survey data, administrative data, and third-party data.

Explore data for Tennessee using our data visualization. 
**Monthly Retail Sales**State Sales Tax Collections: Tennessee
Monthly state tax collections provides data for sales taxes from general sales, lodging, alcoholic beverages, motor fuel, tobacco products, and individual income and corporate income taxes. 

Use our interactive data visualization to explore data for Tennessee. 
**Selected Tax Collections**View Tennessee Statistics in Our COVID-19 Data Hub
View the state COVID-19 impact planning report. Take a look at new survey data and estimates.
**View Data**Other Resources for State Data
Check out these other resources to find state and community data:
- My Community Explorer
- State Facts for Students
- data.census.gov Tennessee state profile
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