Jonesborough, Tennessee

Jonesborough population, 2020 to 2024

Jonesborough added 830 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.0%. In the latest year it moved by +258. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 12th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Jonesborough is 56% of it.

Jonesborough covers 5.46 square miles of land, for 1,236 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Jonesborough is denser than the typical town.

What county Jonesborough is in

All of Jonesborough's residents live in Washington County, which had 139,642 residents in 2024. Jonesborough holds 4.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jonesborough

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jonesborough by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 37659. 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 Jonesborough is

The Census internal point of Jonesborough is at 36.296100, -82.476400. Nashville, the capital, is 240.2 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Johnson City, TN (73,635 people), 6.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 85.2 miles away.

Daylight in Jonesborough

At 36.30° N, Jonesborough 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 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jonesborough

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Johnson City, 6.2 miles away, with 73,635 people.