Athens, Tennessee

Athens population, 2020 to 2024

Athens added 959 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.8%. In the latest year it moved by +322. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Athens is 1.2 times that size.

Athens covers 15.56 square miles of land, for 967 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Athens is close to the typical town.

What county Athens is in

All of Athens's residents live in McMinn County, which had 56,754 residents in 2024. Athens holds 26.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Athens

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Athens by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37303. 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 Athens is

The Census internal point of Athens is at 35.456800, -84.604500. Nashville, the capital, is 131.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cleveland, TN (50,232 people), 24.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chattanooga, TN, 45.2 miles away.

Daylight in Athens

At 35.46° N, Athens gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Athens

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Englewood, 6.9 miles away, with 1,590 people.