Dayton, Tennessee

Dayton population, 2020 to 2024

Dayton added 380 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.1%. In the latest year it moved by +75. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 41st; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Dayton is 64% of it.

Dayton covers 8.50 square miles of land and 0.24 of water, for 917 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Dayton is close to the typical town.

What county Dayton is in

All of Dayton's residents live in Rhea County, which had 34,759 residents in 2024. Dayton holds 22.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dayton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dayton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37321. 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 Dayton is

The Census internal point of Dayton is at 35.495400, -85.008700. Nashville, the capital, is 109.7 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Soddy-Daisy, TN (13,430 people), 18.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chattanooga, TN, 32.6 miles away.

Daylight in Dayton

At 35.50° N, Dayton 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 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dayton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Graysville, 5.0 miles away, with 1,508 people.