Tennessee · Census place 4730980

Greeneville, Tennessee

Greeneville is a town in Greene County, Tennessee with an estimated 15,979 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 38th largest of 232 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
15,979
#38 of 232 in Tennessee
Change since 2020
+3.0%
+469 people
Land area
17.0 sq mi
Density
940 / sq mi
State median 947
Orange pin: Greeneville. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Nashville.

Greeneville population, 2020 to 2024

Greeneville added 469 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +229. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Greeneville is 1.3 times that size.

15.5k202015.4k202115.5k202215.8k202316.0k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 15,486. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Greeneville covers 17.00 square miles of land, for 940 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Greeneville is close to the typical town.

What county Greeneville is in

All of Greeneville's residents live in Greene County, which had 73,398 residents in 2024. Greeneville holds 21.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Greeneville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Greeneville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 37743, 37745. 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 Greeneville is

The Census internal point of Greeneville is at 36.168000, -82.819700. Nashville, the capital, is 221.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Morristown, TN (32,994 people), 26.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 64.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
36.168000, -82.819700
DMS
36°10'4.80"N 82°49'10.92"W
UTM
17N 336334.9E 4004116.5N
Geohash
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Plus code
868V559J+64

Daylight in Greeneville

At 36.17° N, Greeneville gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Greeneville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Tusculum, 4.2 miles away, with 3,394 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Greeneville, TN?

15,979 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 469 (3.0%) from 15,510 in July 2020.

What county is Greeneville in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Greeneville?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 37743, 37745.

How far is Greeneville from Nashville?

221.1 miles (355.8 km) in a straight line, heading W from Greeneville.

What is the nearest larger city to Greeneville?

Morristown, TN, with 32,994 residents, 26.9 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.