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Bradley County, TN

Banking market profile · FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 30, 2025

Bradley County, Tennessee, a core county of the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL market, holds $2.6B in deposits across 13 insured institutions and 26 branches. Pinnacle Bank is the largest deposit holder at 19.9% share. The top three institutions hold 49.0% of deposits, which places the county in the moderately concentrated band. Deposits have grown 34.5% since 2020. It produces $5.1B of output, ranking #590 of the 1,523 counties within a CSA or MSA by economic output.

2024 Real GDP
$5.1B
#590 of 1,523
Total Deposits
$2.6B
#562 of 1,523
Population
115,465
#552 of 1,523
GDP per Capita
$44,082
#758 of 1,523
Insured Institutions
13
#445 of 1,523
Deposits per Branch
$99M
#609 of 1,523
Deposits per Capita
$22,274
#751 of 1,523
Branches per 100k Pop.
22.5
#855 of 1,523
Median Institution Size
$170M
Median deposits of the institutions operating in the county. #434 of 1,523. A smaller figure signals a market served mainly by community-scale banks.
Community & Regional Bank Share
39.0%
of market deposits held by banks with $100M to $50B in assets. #1,125 of 1,523. A higher share points to a market where small to mid-size institutions, the kind that compete on relationships and local decision-making, hold more ground.
Top-3 Deposit Share: moderately concentrated
49.0%
The combined deposit share of the three largest institutions in the county. A lower share means deposits are spread across more institutions.

Deposit trend

Total county deposits, 2020 to 2025+34.5% over 5 years
$1.9B
2020
$2.2B
2021
$2.3B
2022
$2.4B
2023
$2.5B
2024
$2.6B
2025

Branches: 26 in 2020 to 26 in 2025. Institutions: 11 to 13. Top-three share: 47.9% to 49.0%.

Leading institutions by deposits

InstitutionDepositsShareBranches5‑yr
Pinnacle Bank$512M19.9%1+205%
First Horizon Bank$382M14.9%2+13%
First Citizens National Bank$365M14.2%4+39%
Regions Bank$335M13.0%4+22%
Truist Bank$303M11.8%20%
Bank of Cleveland$282M11.0%5+3%
SouthEast Bank$170M6.6%1+32%
SmartBank$65M2.5%1+161%
United Community Bank$63M2.4%1-5%
Andrew Johnson Bank$38M1.5%2+49%

The 10 insured institutions with a branch presence in this county, as of June 30, 2025. Five-year change compares the same institution’s county deposits in 2020 and 2025. Institutions are tracked by FDIC certificate number, and where an institution acquired another bank, the acquired bank’s prior deposits are folded into the baseline so the change reflects the combined, continuing franchise rather than reading as new. Even so, a large gain can reflect acquisition rather than competitive growth; “no 2020 presence” means neither the institution nor a bank it later absorbed reported deposits in this county that year.

Part of the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton market

Bradley County is one of 14 counties that make up the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL market, a Combined Statistical Area (ranked #71 of 293 U.S. markets by economic output). It produces 9.7% of the market’s output and holds 10.7% of its deposits.

MeasureBradley CountyShare of Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton market
2024 GDP$5.1B9.7%
Deposits$2.6B10.7%
Population115,46511.2%

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Recruiting in Bradley County

Deposits are split among a moderate number of institutions. Who holds the deposits, and how contested the market is, shapes both the runway for growth and the competition you would be recruiting against. We recruit commercial relationship managers, banking teams, and market leaders for banks building in markets like Bradley County, on a retained basis.

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