Johnson City, Tennessee

Johnson City population, 2020 to 2024

Johnson City added 2,514 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +188. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 57th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Johnson City is 6.1 times that size.

Johnson City covers 43.75 square miles of land and 0.31 of water, for 1,683 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Johnson City is denser than the typical town.

The 3 counties Johnson City spans

Johnson City crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 73,635 residents as follows; Washington County holds 97.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Johnson City

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Johnson City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37601, 37604, 37614, 37615. 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 Johnson City is

The Census internal point of Johnson City is at 36.342300, -82.380900. Nashville, the capital, is 245.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Asheville, NC (94,992 people), 54.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 91.2 miles away.

Daylight in Johnson City

At 36.34° N, Johnson City 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 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Johnson City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Jonesborough, 6.2 miles away, with 6,746 people.