Alcoa, Tennessee

Alcoa population, 2020 to 2024

Alcoa added 2,598 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +23.6%. In the latest year it moved by +224. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Alcoa is 1.1 times that size.

Alcoa covers 14.89 square miles of land and 0.88 of water, for 913 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Alcoa is close to the typical town.

What county Alcoa is in

All of Alcoa's residents live in Blount County, which had 142,211 residents in 2024. Alcoa holds 9.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alcoa

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Alcoa by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37701, 37777, 37804. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Alcoa is

The Census internal point of Alcoa is at 35.814800, -83.968100. Nashville, the capital, is 159.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Maryville, TN (32,373 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 10.8 miles away.

Daylight in Alcoa

At 35.81° N, Alcoa gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alcoa

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Maryville, 4.7 miles away, with 32,373 people.