
About Rutherford
County
Rutherford County, as
of the 2010 census, is the state's
fifth-largest county by population with
262,604 people. Its county seat is
Murfreesboro, which is also the geographic
center of Tennessee, as well as the center
of population of Tennessee.
The county is included in the
Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin Metropolitan
Statistical Area.
About Murfreesboro
Murfreesboro is a city
in and the county seat
of Rutherford County,
Tennessee.
Although Murfreesboro
is sometimes considered a suburb
of Nashville, Tennessee, which is 35 miles to the northwest,
it is far enough away and has a large enough
population to maintain a separate identity
from its larger neighbor, and thus can be
considered a smaller city within the
Nashville-Murfreesboro metropolitan area. The city is also home to Middle Tennessee State
University,
the largest undergraduate university in the
state of Tennessee, with an undergraduate
population of 22,299 and 25,188 total
students as of 2009.
In 2006, Murfreesboro
was ranked by
Money
as the 84th best place to live in the United
States, out of 745 cities with a population
over 50,000.
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