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Mayor Freddie O'Connell · Democratic · in office since Sept. 25, 2023
The Executive Summary
Mayor Freddie O'Connell (D) has led Nashville since Sept. 2023; Nashville is not yet scored — a mayor's record opens only after enough years in office for the lagged data to say anything fair; the card below says exactly where each metric stands.
| Unemployment 3% (2025) | Not yet scored |
| Median household income $80,090 (2024 · constant 2024 $) | Too early |
| Poverty rate 12.1% (2024) | Too early |
| Government form | Strong mayor |
Freddie O'Connell has served long enough, but Nashville has too few years of data inside the scoring window to fit a trend yet. Outcomes are lagged a year before they are attributed, and a trend needs at least two annual points after that; this fills in as each source publishes.
Sources: unemployment — BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics · median household income — Census ACS 1-year, CPI-U deflated · poverty rate — Census ACS 1-year (B17001). Unemployment runs through 2025; income and poverty through 2024. The 2025 unemployment point is an eleven-month average — October 2025 was never collected during the federal shutdown — and it is included and flagged here under the same rule the state pages apply to the same statistic (one statistic, one rulebook, as of v2.6; through v2.5 city pages excluded it instead, and the changelog says so).
Scored on economic outcomes only — unemployment, real median income and poverty. Crime, housing and health are not yet included, so this is a narrower measure than a governor’s. Consolidated city-county. Freddie O'Connell heads the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, which the Census reports as an incorporated place — so the population and the economic statistics on this page describe the county balance: the consolidated area minus the separately incorporated municipalities inside it. Government form follows standard reference classifications and was not verified city by city. Methodology
Nashville sits in TN, whose governor Bill Lee holds a scored statewide record (No. 24 of 29). State outcomes are not the mayor’s grade — a city is not a state — but they’re the nearest verified context today.