Fayetteville, Tennessee

Fayetteville population, 2020 to 2024

Fayetteville added 77 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +88. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 83rd; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Fayetteville is 59% of it.

Fayetteville covers 9.09 square miles of land, for 786 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Fayetteville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fayetteville is in

All of Fayetteville's residents live in Lincoln County, which had 36,751 residents in 2024. Fayetteville holds 19.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fayetteville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fayetteville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37334. 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 Fayetteville is

The Census internal point of Fayetteville is at 35.150200, -86.562300. Nashville, the capital, is 71.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lewisburg, TN (13,473 people), 24.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntsville, AL, 31.9 miles away.

Daylight in Fayetteville

At 35.15° N, Fayetteville gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fayetteville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Lynchburg, Moore County, 15.0 miles away, with 6,773 people.