Rank 8 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Tennessee

Tennessee gained through both migration channels, from other states and from other countries, while recording more deaths than births. Every net resident added here arrived; none were born here on balance.

Measured as counts rather than rates, the channel that moved the most people in Tennessee over 2021–2024 was domestic migration. That is a statement about volume, not direction: a channel can be the largest by losing.

Domestic migrationmoved the most people+237,368+32.8 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+72,930+10.1 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−14,148−2.0 per 1,000 residentsNatural change. Not migration at all, and frequently mistaken for it.

Year by year

Counts of people. Bars share one scale across all 4 years and all three channels, so a short bar is a small number rather than a rescaled one.

Tennessee, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+45,483	+3,112	79,463	89,410	−9,947
2022	+83,116	+19,466	82,091	91,578	−9,487
2023	+60,293	+22,704	83,108	81,180	+1,928
2024	+48,476	+27,648	83,223	79,865	+3,358

Ranked just above and below Tennessee

7Maine+33.7 / 1,000 9Arizona+29.3 / 1,000

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Vintage-year 2020 is published for a partial period and carries no companion rate, so it is excluded rather than shown alongside four full years it cannot be compared with. A work of the U.S. government: no copyright subsists (17 U.S.C. §105). Source file