Sumner County, Tennessee

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Key takeaways

Sumner County has 204,424 residents and sits 25 miles northeast of Nashville, growing 9.8% from 2020 to 2025. Meta opened its Gallatin data center in 2020 and announced an expansion in 2024 that pushes total investment past $1 billion.Source: Census ACS 2024 B01003 + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Sumner County) + sources[1] (Wikipedia: Gallatin, TN)
Gallatin Department of Electricity is a municipal utility serving 23,204 customers, the smallest power provider in any batch-4 county. Its residential rate rose 6.3% from 11.1 to 11.8 cents per kWh between 2021 and 2023, about $75 per year on a typical bill.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (City of Gallatin, TN)
Home prices are up only 4.7% over three years but property tax assessments rose 9.2%, on a median household income of $90,301 and a median home value of $393,100. Sumner has the highest median income of any batch-4 county.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 47165) + Census ACS 2024 B19013, B25077
The Meta Gallatin campus draws power downstream from TVA's coal-fired Gallatin Fossil Plant. Sumner is the only batch-4 county where a hyperscaler campus has been operating for five years before any other batch-4 site even broke ground.Source: sources[1] (Wikipedia: Gallatin, TN) + data/sites/data_centers.csv

72.2% of Sumner County households own their home, the highest ownership rate among the metro-scale counties in batch 4. Hispanic residents are just 6.9% of the population, the lowest Hispanic share of any batch-4 county.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25003, B03003 (FIPS 47165)
Only 3.2% of Sumner's labor force is unemployed and 9.0% live below the poverty line, the tightest labor market in batch 4. Meta's 2024 Gallatin expansion is landing in a county that is already near full employment.Source: Census ACS 2023 B23025, B17001 (FIPS 47165)
10.5% of Sumner's working population is in manufacturing, the highest mfg share of any Tennessee county in batch 4. Nissan suppliers and Gap's regional distribution hub feed that baseline.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050 (FIPS 47165)
92.1% of Sumner households have broadband, the highest connectivity rate in batch 4 outside the DFW suburbs. Veterans are 7.4% of adults, lifted by the Nashville metro's proximity to Fort Campbell.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002, B21001 (FIPS 47165)