CHATTANOOGA, Tenn — More people are moving to the Chattanooga area, and they’re coming faster than the rest of the country.
A new report from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga shows the metro area’s population grew at more than twice the national rate between 2020 and 2025. (Scroll down to read the full report).
That growth is being driven largely by people moving here from other parts of the United States, according to researchers at UTC’s Center for Regional Economic Research (CRER).
CRER’s report says the Chattanooga metro area added more than 31,000 people during that five-year stretch, reaching nearly 595,000 residents. At the current pace, the population is expected to cross 600,000 sometime later this summer.
Almost 27,000 of those new residents came from domestic migration, far outpacing international migration and natural population changes like births and deaths, according to CRER’s report…