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Tennessee

First-level unit, United States of America: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 56 first-level units
Page GRX-USA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO USA / USStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
7,317,479
people (GHSL 2025)
109,139 km²
area
2.1%
of United States of America
95
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Tennessee

The 95 ADM2 units of Tennessee.

FIG 1 · 95 units inside Tennessee
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

7,317,479

2.1% of United States of America.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

6,968,888

-5% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

109,139 km²

67 people per km².

Code

US-TN

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

95 units inside Tennessee

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Anderson – 89,017 82,752 892.23 100 1.2% 0
Bedford – 54,636 53,555 1,231.73 44 0.7% 0
Benton – 18,322 14,190 1,126.86 16 0.3% 0
Bledsoe – 14,406 15,365 1,055.33 14 0.2% 0
Blount – 137,315 138,086 1,468.51 94 1.9% 0
Bradley – 114,999 110,479 857.21 134 1.6% 0
Campbell – 46,311 35,479 1,287.61 36 0.6% 0
Cannon – 16,076 14,771 688.92 23 0.2% 0
Carroll – 32,716 27,654 1,555.64 21 0.4% 0
Carter – 64,097 51,332 898.31 71 0.9% 0
Cheatham – 44,561 40,545 797.3 56 0.6% 0
Chester – 20,233 16,897 740.9 27 0.3% 0
Claiborne – 38,392 31,286 1,144.49 34 0.5% 0
Clay – 7,589 5,756 673.44 11 0.1% 0
Cocke – 41,914 36,405 1,150.55 36 0.6% 0
Coffee – 59,122 57,761 1,125.96 53 0.8% 0
Crockett – 16,843 12,807 691.01 24 0.2% 0
Cumberland – 67,453 62,175 1,776.68 38 0.9% 0
Davidson – 722,099 739,795 1,356.79 532 9.9% 0
Decatur – 13,042 10,308 890.3 15 0.2% 0
DeKalb – 21,968 21,076 851.51 26 0.3% 0
Dickson – 59,798 57,176 1,272.34 47 0.8% 0
Dyer – 42,659 32,766 1,361.01 31 0.6% 0
Fayette – 51,228 48,209 1,828.2 28 0.7% 0
Fentress – 20,298 17,660 1,287.06 16 0.3% 0
Franklin – 47,915 43,251 1,489.88 32 0.7% 0
Gibson – 55,293 46,659 1,560.23 35 0.8% 0
Giles – 30,810 27,497 1,581.39 19 0.4% 0
Grainger – 26,173 22,930 783.47 33 0.4% 0
Greene – 78,367 67,146 1,621.31 48 1.1% 0
Grundy – 14,411 11,774 935.08 15 0.2% 0
Hamblen – 72,433 63,448 452.84 160 1% 0
Hamilton – 348,083 333,755 1,493.45 233 4.8% 0
Hancock – 8,374 6,483 578.88 14 0.1% 0
Hardeman – 30,901 22,584 1,736.37 18 0.4% 0
Hardin – 28,205 24,966 1,542.71 18 0.4% 0
Hawkins – 67,607 55,162 1,293.83 52 0.9% 0
Haywood – 20,818 16,012 1,382.72 15 0.3% 0
Henderson – 30,481 24,801 1,361.68 22 0.4% 0
Henry – 37,375 30,618 1,539.86 24 0.5% 0
Hickman – 28,698 23,498 1,583.38 18 0.4% 0
Houston – 9,725 7,682 537.61 18 0.1% 0
Humphreys – 21,245 18,892 1,440.65 15 0.3% 0
Jackson – 14,099 11,445 827.51 17 0.2% 0
Jefferson – 59,432 53,988 813.19 73 0.8% 0
Johnson – 20,361 16,109 788.14 26 0.3% 0
Knox – 465,813 488,717 1,365 341 6.4% 0
Lake – 8,833 6,025 502.95 18 0.1% 0
Lauderdale – 31,416 20,978 1,315.96 24 0.4% 0
Lawrence – 49,415 45,204 1,597.08 31 0.7% 0
Lewis – 14,136 12,474 731.35 19 0.2% 0
Lincoln – 37,902 34,570 1,479.54 26 0.5% 0
Loudon – 57,660 56,949 639.58 90 0.8% 0
Macon – 24,854 25,709 795.05 31 0.3% 0
Madison – 114,156 94,358 1,448.36 79 1.6% 0
Marion – 31,753 27,145 1,330.62 24 0.4% 0
Marshall – 36,446 36,391 980.53 37 0.5% 0
Maury – 97,391 110,727 1,596.83 61 1.3% 0
McMinn – 60,314 53,061 1,122.82 54 0.8% 0
McNairy – 31,538 25,515 1,462.65 22 0.4% 0
Meigs – 14,110 13,238 559.51 25 0.2% 0
Monroe – 51,643 44,530 1,688.86 31 0.7% 0
Montgomery – 213,967 251,565 1,405.66 152 2.9% 0
Moore – 8,111 6,963 332.89 24 0.1% 0
Morgan – 27,675 20,367 1,354.53 20 0.4% 0
Obion – 36,167 27,827 1,438.28 25 0.5% 0
Overton – 26,222 22,045 1,127.39 23 0.4% 0
Perry – 9,177 8,977 1,094.65 8 0.1% 0
Pickett – 5,271 4,147 451.95 12 0.1% 0
Polk – 17,905 16,107 1,146.03 16 0.2% 0
Putnam – 83,551 81,246 1,041.22 80 1.1% 0
Rhea – 34,185 29,503 869.49 39 0.5% 0
Roane – 58,929 47,641 1,022 58 0.8% 0
Robertson – 80,178 76,845 1,236.73 65 1.1% 0
Rutherford – 334,167 381,721 1,608.76 208 4.6% 0
Scott – 25,376 20,198 1,378.73 18 0.3% 0
Sequatchie – 18,217 17,354 685.95 27 0.2% 0
Sevier – 107,175 98,436 1,544.52 69 1.5% 0
Shelby – 1,020,332 871,879 2,033.55 502 13.9% 0
Smith – 21,367 19,149 841.6 25 0.3% 0
Stewart – 15,723 13,290 1,277.1 12 0.2% 0
Sullivan – 175,537 150,762 1,112.86 158 2.4% 0
Sumner – 203,522 221,920 1,403.42 145 2.8% 0
Tipton – 71,019 55,045 1,224.98 58 1% 0
Trousdale – 8,231 11,319 304.69 27 0.1% 0
Unicoi – 18,885 14,930 482.28 39 0.3% 0
Union – 25,930 23,158 640.57 40 0.4% 0
Van Buren – 6,472 6,168 712.74 9 0.1% 0
Warren – 45,275 40,430 1,126.68 40 0.6% 0
Washington – 151,637 141,641 851.92 178 2.1% 0
Wayne – 18,371 14,331 1,909.21 10 0.3% 0
Weakley – 38,732 28,582 1,502.92 26 0.5% 0
White – 31,628 28,918 979.06 32 0.4% 0
Williamson – 240,699 290,027 1,514.18 159 3.3% 0
Wilson – 144,565 167,821 1,514.33 95 2% 0
04Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
2,673.9 H3 cells
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
2 H3 cells
Major roads
6,389.9 H3 cells
Ojantshi
1,413 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
1,251.3 H3 cells
05Ubungozi

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Tennessee publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for United States of America.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM1, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM2, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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