Jobs & Economy in Brentwood
Brentwood's economy runs through healthcare-sector corporate headquarters and a genuine Fortune 500 retail HQ -- HCA Healthcare's TriStar Division and Tractor Supply Company are both based in Brentwood -- alongside the same persistently low Williamson County unemployment rate shared with Franklin, though Brentwood's own jobs base is smaller and more corporate-office-oriented than Franklin's manufacturing-and-hospital-operator mix.
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Learn moreHCA Healthcare's TriStar Division: a real, large regional healthcare employer headquartered in Brentwood
HCA Healthcare's TriStar Division, headquartered in Brentwood, operates 17 hospitals across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky, with roughly 27,000 employees across the region -- a genuine, large-scale healthcare-sector employer whose corporate headquarters sits directly in Brentwood, even though (per healthcare) no TriStar hospital itself operates within Brentwood's own city limits.
Tractor Supply Company: a real Fortune 500 headquarters
Tractor Supply Company, a Nasdaq-listed (TSCO) Fortune 500 retailer founded in 1938, is headquartered at 5401 Virginia Way in Brentwood, with a company-wide workforce cited at roughly 48,000-50,000 employees across its national store network -- a genuine, large corporate headquarters based directly in the city.
LBMC and a broader base of professional-services employers
LBMC, cited as the largest regional accounting and business-consulting firm based in Tennessee, employs roughly 300 people in Brentwood -- part of a broader pattern of professional-services and corporate-office employers concentrated in the Brentwood/Maryland Farms office submarket, an area whose office development has been substantially shaped by HCA's decades-long presence.
The same persistently low Williamson County unemployment rate as Franklin
Williamson County's unemployment rate ran between roughly 2.4% and 3.0% across the first half of 2026 (Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development data), consistently among the lowest of any Tennessee county during that period -- the same countywide figure cited for Franklin, since it is not broken out separately by city.
Key takeaways
- HCA Healthcare's TriStar Division, headquartered in Brentwood, operates 17 hospitals across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky with roughly 27,000 regional employees -- a genuine, large healthcare-sector employer based in the city, even though no TriStar hospital itself sits within Brentwood's city limits.
- Tractor Supply Company, a Nasdaq-listed Fortune 500 retailer (TSCO), is headquartered at 5401 Virginia Way in Brentwood, with a company-wide workforce of roughly 48,000-50,000 employees.
- LBMC (Tennessee's largest regional accounting/consulting firm, ~300 Brentwood employees) is part of a broader professional-services office cluster in the Brentwood/Maryland Farms submarket, shaped substantially by HCA's long-term presence.
- Williamson County's unemployment rate ran roughly 2.4%-3.0% across the first half of 2026, the same countywide figure that applies to both Brentwood and Franklin.
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