Cookeville, Tennessee

Cookeville population, 2020 to 2024

Cookeville added 2,165 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.2%. In the latest year it moved by +396. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Cookeville is 3.1 times that size.

Cookeville covers 35.77 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 1,037 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Cookeville is close to the typical town.

What county Cookeville is in

All of Cookeville's residents live in Putnam County, which had 84,894 residents in 2024. Cookeville holds 43.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cookeville

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Cookeville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38501, 38503, 38505, 38506. 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 Cookeville is

The Census internal point of Cookeville is at 36.146900, -85.512700. Nashville, the capital, is 70.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lebanon, TN (51,501 people), 46.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Murfreesboro, TN, 54.7 miles away.

Daylight in Cookeville

At 36.15° N, Cookeville gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cookeville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Algood, 5.2 miles away, with 4,104 people.