Arlington, Tennessee

Arlington population, 2020 to 2024

Arlington added 632 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +181. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 51st; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Arlington is 1.3 times that size.

Arlington covers 23.75 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 655 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Arlington is less dense than the typical town.

What county Arlington is in

All of Arlington's residents live in Shelby County, which had 910,530 residents in 2024. Arlington holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Arlington

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Arlington by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 38002, 38028. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Arlington is

The Census internal point of Arlington is at 35.252500, -89.661100. Nashville, the capital, is 173.3 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bartlett, TN (56,708 people), 9.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Memphis, TN, 20.0 miles away.

Daylight in Arlington

At 35.25° N, Arlington gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Arlington

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Lakeland, 3.7 miles away, with 14,416 people.