Gallatin, Tennessee

Gallatin population, 2020 to 2024

Gallatin added 7,664 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +17.1%. In the latest year it moved by +2,076. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Gallatin is 4.3 times that size.

Gallatin covers 35.25 square miles of land and 0.54 of water, for 1,489 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Gallatin is denser than the typical town.

What county Gallatin is in

All of Gallatin's residents live in Sumner County, which had 211,721 residents in 2024. Gallatin holds 24.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gallatin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gallatin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37066. 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 Gallatin is

The Census internal point of Gallatin is at 36.381500, -86.467000. Nashville, the capital, is 23.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hendersonville, TN (63,947 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Nashville-Davidson, TN, 22.9 miles away.

Daylight in Gallatin

At 36.38° N, Gallatin gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gallatin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Hendersonville, 9.0 miles away, with 63,947 people.