Kingsport, Tennessee

Kingsport population, 2020 to 2024

Kingsport added 1,599 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +348. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 65th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Kingsport is 4.7 times that size.

Kingsport covers 53.09 square miles of land and 0.92 of water, for 1,076 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Kingsport is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Kingsport spans

Kingsport crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 57,109 residents as follows; Sullivan County holds 95.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kingsport

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Kingsport by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37660, 37663, 37664, 37665. 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 Kingsport is

The Census internal point of Kingsport is at 36.519400, -82.543400. Nashville, the capital, is 237.2 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Johnson City, TN (73,635 people), 15.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 87.1 miles away.

Daylight in Kingsport

At 36.52° N, Kingsport gets about 14 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kingsport

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Carmel, 7.6 miles away, with 5,549 people.