Tennessee · Census place 4737780
Jamestown, Tennessee
Jamestown is a city in Fentress County, Tennessee with an estimated 2,102 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 167th largest of 232 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,102
- #167 of 232 in Tennessee
- Change since 2020
- +4.1%
- +82 people
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- Density
- 674 / sq mi
- State median 947
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Jamestown population, 2020 to 2024
Jamestown added 82 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.1%. In the latest year it moved by +25.
Jamestown covers 3.12 square miles of land, for 674 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Jamestown is less dense than the typical town.
What county Jamestown is in
All of Jamestown's residents live in Fentress County, which had 20,129 residents in 2024. Jamestown holds 10.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Jamestown
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jamestown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38556. 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 Jamestown is
The Census internal point of Jamestown is at 36.430800, -84.935600. Nashville, the capital, is 104.5 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Livingston, TN (4,100 people), 21.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 63.5 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 36.430800, -84.935600
- DMS
- 36°25'50.88"N 84°56'8.16"W
- UTM
- 16N 685054.2E 4033712.5N
- Geohash
- dn7x70pbc
- Plus code
- 868QC3J7+8Q
Daylight in Jamestown
At 36.43° N, Jamestown gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Jamestown
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Livingston, 21.9 miles away, with 4,100 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Jamestown, TN?
2,102 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 82 (4.1%) from 2,020 in July 2020.
What county is Jamestown in?
Fentress County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Jamestown?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 38556.
How far is Jamestown from Nashville?
104.5 miles (168.2 km) in a straight line, heading W from Jamestown.
What is the nearest larger city to Jamestown?
Livingston, TN, with 4,100 residents, 21.9 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.