Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Murfreesboro is a city in <a href="/facts/Rutherford_County%2c_Tennessee/8GojL8cK">Rutherford County, Tennessee</a>, United States, and its <a href="/facts/County_seat/ItAWPoWw">county seat</a>. Its population was 165,430 according to the 2023 census estimate, up from 108,755 residents certified in <a href="/facts/2010_United_States_census/RoYVI17A">2010</a>. Murfreesboro is located in the <a href="/facts/Nashville_metropolitan_area/pz2P1t2u">Nashville metropolitan area</a> of <a href="/facts/Middle_Tennessee/LJbFdAWu">Middle Tennessee</a>, 34 miles (55 km) southeast of downtown <a href="/facts/Nashville%2c_Tennessee/KvWAcNtd">Nashville</a>.
It served as the state capital from 1818 to 1826. Today, it is the largest <a href="/facts/Suburb/8Nv6KVJr">suburb</a> of Nashville and the <a href="/facts/List_of_municipalities_in_Tennessee/K6Kec2Rh">sixth-most populous city in Tennessee</a>. The city is both the <a href="/facts/Center_of_population/XlRJj9Lx">center of population</a> and the geographic center of Tennessee.
Since the 1990s, Murfreesboro has been Tennessee's fastest-growing major city and one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. Murfreesboro is home to <a href="/facts/Middle_Tennessee_State_University/Xdw4BqRY">Middle Tennessee State University</a>, one of the largest undergraduate universities in the state of Tennessee, with 20,540 total students as of fall 2024.

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Murfreesboro, Tennessee