If you;re wondering what the numbers are behing all the area’s growth with so many new subdivisions and townhouses or apartments a federal agency has put some numbers to the new-sized population.One-year population growth in Northeast Tennessee reached levels last year – 6,275 people – that it hadn’t seen in a quarter century, U.S. Census data released. That’s more than the entire period from 2010 through 2019 when the seven-county region grew by just 5,891 people.