Tennessee · Census place 4718420

Cross Plains, Tennessee

Cross Plains is a city in Robertson County, Tennessee with an estimated 1,907 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 179th largest of 232 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,907
#179 of 232 in Tennessee
Change since 2020
+6.8%
+122 people
Land area
8.7 sq mi
Density
219 / sq mi
State median 947
Orange pin: Cross Plains. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Nashville.

Cross Plains population, 2020 to 2024

Cross Plains added 122 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.8%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

1,78520201,83520211,85720221,89920231,9072024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,783. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Cross Plains covers 8.69 square miles of land, for 219 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Cross Plains is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cross Plains is in

All of Cross Plains's residents live in Robertson County, which had 78,459 residents in 2024. Cross Plains holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cross Plains

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cross Plains by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37049. 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 Cross Plains is

The Census internal point of Cross Plains is at 36.541200, -86.676600. Nashville, the capital, is 26.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is White House, TN (16,463 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Nashville-Davidson, TN, 26.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
36.541200, -86.676600
DMS
36°32'28.32"N 86°40'35.76"W
UTM
16N 528946.9E 4044026.8N
Geohash
dn6rgsh5b
Plus code
868MG8RF+F9

Daylight in Cross Plains

At 36.54° N, Cross Plains 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 Cross Plains

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Orlinda, 3.9 miles away, with 1,005 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Cross Plains, TN?

1,907 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 122 (6.8%) from 1,785 in July 2020.

What county is Cross Plains in?

Robertson County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Cross Plains?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 37049.

How far is Cross Plains from Nashville?

26.6 miles (42.8 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Cross Plains.

What is the nearest larger city to Cross Plains?

White House, TN, with 16,463 residents, 5.3 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.