City Cast is committed to tracking–and publishing–demographic information about our podcast guests. Diversity is a core City Cast value, and accountability is another. We want to have podcast guests who are diverse in race and ethnicity, gender, economic background, and geography. Tracking and publicizing guest demographics is a way to hold us accountable for representing the diversity of Nashville.
So are we living up to our values? How diverse is our podcast guest pool, really?
This is the second year of data we have about City Cast Nashville guests. (Here’s our report for last year.) We ask each of our City Cast Nashville podcast guests a few questions about their gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, and neighborhood. More than 90% of guests have responded. The following data encompass a total of 196 guests who appeared on the podcast between Nov. 1, 2024 and Dec. 31, 2025. (We did not count City Cast Nashville staffers who appeared on the podcast.)
We then used census data to compare our podcast guests to the broader city and metro population. This helps us see how well we’re reflecting the community we’re serving.
City Cast Nashville guests look similar to the city and metro area as a whole. We had a higher percentage of white guests than the city and metro area, and a lower percentage of Hispanic guests, only 3% compared to 12% for the city.
We also asked about gender identity. A 55% majority of our guests identified as female, 44% identified as male, and 1% identified as non-binary.
