Columbia, Tennessee

Columbia population, 2020 to 2024

Columbia added 6,818 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +16.2%. In the latest year it moved by +1,501. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Columbia is 4.0 times that size.

Columbia covers 36.49 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,338 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Columbia is denser than the typical town.

What county Columbia is in

All of Columbia's residents live in Maury County, which had 113,411 residents in 2024. Columbia holds 43.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Columbia

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Columbia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38401. 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 Columbia is

The Census internal point of Columbia is at 35.625600, -87.044200. Nashville, the capital, is 40.1 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spring Hill, TN (59,398 people), 11.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Murfreesboro, TN, 38.3 miles away.

Daylight in Columbia

At 35.63° N, Columbia 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 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Columbia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Pleasant, 9.6 miles away, with 4,871 people.