La Follette, Tennessee

La Follette population, 2020 to 2024

La Follette lost 217 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.9%. In the latest year it moved by -47. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 102nd; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so La Follette is 59% of it.

La Follette covers 4.91 square miles of land, for 1,465 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so La Follette is denser than the typical town.

What county La Follette is in

All of La Follette's residents live in Campbell County, which had 40,238 residents in 2024. La Follette holds 17.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in La Follette

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps La Follette by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37766. 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 La Follette is

The Census internal point of La Follette is at 36.371700, -84.125600. Nashville, the capital, is 148.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clinton, TN (10,458 people), 19.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 29.4 miles away.

Daylight in La Follette

At 36.37° N, La Follette gets about 14 h 39 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 La Follette

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Jacksboro, 4.5 miles away, with 2,248 people.