Dresden, Tennessee

Dresden population, 2020 to 2024

Dresden lost 62 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

Dresden covers 5.94 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 493 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Dresden is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dresden is in

All of Dresden's residents live in Weakley County, which had 33,162 residents in 2024. Dresden holds 8.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dresden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dresden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 38225. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Dresden is

The Census internal point of Dresden is at 36.279900, -88.699100. Nashville, the capital, is 107.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Martin, TN (10,989 people), 9.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Clarksville, TN, 77.9 miles away.

Daylight in Dresden

At 36.28° N, Dresden gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dresden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Gleason, 6.6 miles away, with 1,363 people.