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Knoxville, TN Metro Area Demographics

Knoxville, TN Metro Area is the 63rd most populous of 935 metro areas in the United States, with 903,299 residents across 3,501 square miles. That is about 258 people per square mile.

At the 2020 census

Population 903,299
Land area 3,501 sq mi
Density 258 / sq mi

Data: 2020 Census · American Community Survey 2024

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Counties in the Knoxville, TN Metro Area area

Name Population Sq mi Per sq mi
Knox County 478,971 508.3 942
Blount County, TN 135,279 558.8 242
Anderson County, TN 77,123 337.2 229
County Loudon 54,886 229.2 239
Roane County, TN 53,404 360.8 148
Campbell County, TN 39,272 480.2 82
Grainger County 23,527 280.6 84
Morgan County, TN 21,035 522.2 40
Union County, TN 19,802 223.6 89

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