• Nashville DMA houses 90% of the top 100 food brands in the country
• Top 20 Market for dining out and food dollars spent out of homes, according to Nation’s Restaurant News
• Abundance of QSR, Family and Casual Dining segments
• Nashville Metro is the largest metropolitan area in the Central South region
• Top 25 market with population of 1.5 million residents
• Economically diverse with 38,000 business establishments and numerous corporate headquarters in industries ranging from music, health care, retail, management and professional services, construction, finance and transportation
• Music industry has an economic impact of over $6 billion
• Home to 20 colleges and universities enrolling 100,000 students: Vanderbilt, Belmont, David Lipscomb, Middle Tennessee State, Fisk and Meharry Medical College
• Named one of America’s smartest cities by CNN Money
• Ranked among 10 best places for business and careers by Forbes
• Our diverse participant database
• All incomes, age groups, education levels represented
• Multifaceted ethnicity mix including large ethnic transient base: Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and Southeast Asian populations

To see Demographic Data from the Nashville Chamber of Commerce click the link http://www.nashvilleareainfo.com/Default.aspx?Page=Demographics