Our Ten County Region

Middle Tennessee is one of the most diverse and beautiful parts of Tennessee. This diversity and beauty are two of our most important regional assets, whether we consider them from an economic, cultural, environmental or livability perspective. The Cumberland Region comprises 3.4 million acres across ten counties, with nearly 1.7 million people calling it home. Located in the center of Middle Tennessee, the region consists of:

These ten counties are the population and economic center of Middle Tennessee. Unlike metropolitan areas such as Atlanta and Chicago, most of our 34 cities and 20 towns are physically separate. Residents of the region rely on an interdependent lifestyle, with daily living, shopping and working patterns crossing political, economic, and geographic boundaries.

Regional Organization Partners and Data

Our region is blessed with strong regional planning and development agencies. These partners provide leadership at the regional level and valuable data on our region and individual counties. This data helps our region to plan for future growth and development as well as identify our region’s greatest threats and opportunities for continued economic vitality, livability and sustainability.

The Greater Nashville Regional Council

(GNRC) is a regional organization of the 13 counties and 52 cities of the Greater Nashville Region of Middle Tennessee offering a variety of programming, products and services, both on the municipal and regional level, to our member counties. GNRC: Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson, and Williamson.

The Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)

The Nashville Area MPO leads in the development of the region’s long-range transportation plan and short-range transportation improvement program through a partnership among the U.S. DOT, Tennessee DOT, local elected leadership, local planning and public works directors, the business community, and citizens across the Nashville region.

Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s research team regularly reviews and reports on regional economic and demographic trends.

CRT Addresses Young Regional Leaders at LMT YOUth Summit

In Featured, Multi Media, Our Region, Out and About
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On February 11, Leadership Middle Tennessee held the first-ever YOUth Summit at Belmont University. The group, composed of 36 high school delegates representing ten Middle Tennessee counties participated in the daylong summit to discuss regional collaboration and issues of importance. YOUth delegates also presented information on their communities’ unique qualities and character and their hopes for future growth and development.

In Economy, Our Region
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Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Stephanie Coleman

A recent article on the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) website highlights three takeaways from this year’s CEOs for Cities conference, which brings city leaders together to discuss common themes and challenges. These themes are all familiar topics and priorities among Nashville’s business community. They are:

In Issue, Our Region
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Northern Middle TN Strategic Plan Cover Image

Tennessee Economic and Community Development (ECD), December 16, 2011

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty today announced the release of nine regional strategic plans, including the Northern Middle Tennessee Regional Strategic Plan. Each regional plan outlines how ECD’s field staff will lead new economic development efforts in their regions, support existing networks of local organizations and serve as an effective conduit between the department and regional stakeholders.

In Our Region, Research, Resource
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Cumberland Region Tomorrow, a non-profit in Middle Tennessee that focuses on regional quality growth awareness, recently revealed that 62 percent of the region’s workforce live and work in different counties, an increase of almost 18 percentage points from ten years ago when CRT first began tracking this data in 2000. CRT compiled this information using 2009 U.S. Census data records.