MTSU Plays a Large Role in Helping Rutherford County Grow and Plan for More Growth in a Positive Manner

(Rutherford County, TN) Rutherford County continues to be a serious stakeholder within the area and is transferring in the direction of the place of the quantity 4-largest county within the state…https://bw-wgnsce-site.s3.amazonaws.com/media_library/OPO_122622.mp3 That was Dr. Murat Arik, director of the MTSU Enterprise and Financial Analysis Middle and holder of the Jones Chair of Excellence in Regional and City Planning.

At present, Rutherford County is simply 16,953-residents behind Hamilton County, which is the Chattanooga space, based on the 2021 Census. As soon as the inhabitants in Rutherford County surpasses Hamilton County, Rutherford would be the 4th largest County within the State, simply behind Knox County, the place the inhabitants is sitting at simply over 486,677 residents. Rutherford County has a little bit greater than 353-thousand residents and a few speculate in the present day’s quantity is nearer to 356 to 357-thousand residents.

In gross sales tax collections, Rutherford County is a giant financial driver for the state of Tennessee, creating the fifth largest pool of gross sales tax collections within the state, falling carefully behind Hamilton County. Dr. Arik instructed WGNS that he has 5-objectives…https://bw-wgnsce-site.s3.amazonaws.com/media_library/OPO_122622_002.mp3 Get a more in-depth take a look at the labor power of Rutherford County and the expansion recorded within the Murfreesboro space, together with Center Tennessee within the digital dashboard right here.

On an fascinating facet word, Sevier County with roughly 100-thousand residents – rating because the fifteenth largest county within the Volunteer State, helps to create the seventh highest quantity of gross sales tax collections in Tennessee. Sevier County is residence to Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and the Nice Smoky Mountains.

High 10 Counties for Gross sales Tax Collections: 

1. Davidson County (Nashville, TN Space)
2. Shelby County (Memphis, TN Space)
3. Knox County (Knoxville, TN Space)
4. Hamilton County (Chattanooga, TN)
5. Rutherford County (Murfreesboro / Smyrna / LaVergne, TN)
6. Williamson County (Brentwood / Franklin, TN)
7. Sevier County (Pigeon Forge / Gatlinburg, TN)
8. Montgomery County, TN (Clarksville, TN)
9. Sullivan County, TN (Blountville, TN)
10. Sumner County, TN (Gallatin / Hendersonville, TN)

See Extra on Progress: Rutherford County is the three^rd Quickest Rising County in all the United States of America.

Dr. Arik’s space of experience contains: 

• Regional Financial Evaluation – Enterprise Local weather, Financial Circumstances, Wage and Profit Surveys, Cluster Evaluation, STEM Workforce.      
• Trade Outlook and impression Assessments – Well being Care, Non-profit, Greater Training, Superior Manufacturing, Housing Market.       
• Feasibility and Price-Profit Research – Combined-use Improvement, Infrastructure Enchancment, Greater Training Diploma Feasibility Assessments.     
• Administration and Entrepreneurship – Strategic Administration, Administration of Innovation, Innovation and Creativity.