Brownsville, Tennessee

Brownsville population, 2020 to 2024

Brownsville lost 534 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.4%. In the latest year it moved by -132. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 104th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Brownsville is 77% of it.

Brownsville covers 9.86 square miles of land, for 949 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Brownsville is close to the typical town.

What county Brownsville is in

All of Brownsville's residents live in Haywood County, which had 17,097 residents in 2024. Brownsville holds 54.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brownsville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brownsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38012. 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 Brownsville is

The Census internal point of Brownsville is at 35.589000, -89.257900. Nashville, the capital, is 144.1 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jackson, TN (69,303 people), 24.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Memphis, TN, 52.0 miles away.

Daylight in Brownsville

At 35.59° N, Brownsville gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brownsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Bells, 13.2 miles away, with 2,474 people.