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Contractor websites for Nashville, on the numbers.
Nashville is the metro's core — a state-capital and music-industry economy in a fast-growing city where nearly half the housing is rented and construction rarely stops.
Photo: Isaac Loredo Vargas / PexelsNashville by the numbers
US Census ACS 2024 five-year estimates. Sourced in full below.
- Population
- 690,130
- Median age
- 34.5
- Median household income
- $77,371
- Median home value
- $413,600
- Owner-occupied
- 52.4%
- Broadband access
- 92.6%
- Self-employed
- 11.1%
- Median year built
- 1987
What the data says about building here
Start with tenure. At 52.4% owner-occupancy, Nashville is one of the two most renter-heavy markets in the metro — nearly half of households rent. A contractor selling here is often selling to renters and landlords, not just the settled long-term owner most templates assume.
It is also big and young: 690,130 residents, by far the metro's largest market, at a median age of 34.5. Behind it sits Davidson County's base of 22,122 employer establishments and $38.66B in annual payroll (CBP 2023), 1,472 of them construction firms employing over 27,000 people — the largest contractor field on this map.
The housing is older than the newer-build suburbs, at a median year built of 1987, which is why remodel and repair demand runs deep in the core. A March 2020 EF-3 tornado — the longest Middle Tennessee path since records began in 1950 — cut through North Nashville, Germantown, and East Nashville, and that rebuild left its own mark on which neighborhoods need what.
An EF-3 tornado tracked 60.13 miles across Davidson County on March 3, 2020 — the longest tornado path in Middle Tennessee since records began in 1950 — cutting through North Nashville, Germantown, and East Nashville.
The Davidson County contractor base
Nashville’s market sits inside Davidson County’s 22,122 employer establishments and $38.66B in annual payroll (County Business Patterns 2023). 1,472 of those are construction firms employing about 27,226 people, alongside 2,441 professional-services firms — the field a Nashville trade competes in for the phone call.
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