Bristol, Tennessee

Bristol population, 2020 to 2024

Bristol added 686 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +39. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 68th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Bristol is 2.3 times that size.

Bristol covers 32.71 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 852 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Bristol is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bristol is in

All of Bristol's residents live in Sullivan County, which had 162,703 residents in 2024. Bristol holds 17.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bristol

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bristol by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37620. 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 Bristol is

The Census internal point of Bristol is at 36.558500, -82.217000. Nashville, the capital, is 255.5 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Johnson City, TN (73,635 people), 17.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 104.7 miles away.

Daylight in Bristol

At 36.56° N, Bristol gets about 14 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bristol

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Bluff City, 7.6 miles away, with 1,838 people.