Lafayette, Tennessee

Lafayette population, 2020 to 2024

Lafayette added 332 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.9%. In the latest year it moved by +77. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Lafayette is 49% of it.

Lafayette covers 5.30 square miles of land, for 1,117 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Lafayette is denser than the typical town.

What county Lafayette is in

All of Lafayette's residents live in Macon County, which had 27,189 residents in 2024. Lafayette holds 21.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lafayette

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lafayette by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37083. 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 Lafayette is

The Census internal point of Lafayette is at 36.524000, -86.030600. Nashville, the capital, is 48.7 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hartsville/Trousdale County, TN (12,159 people), 11.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Nashville-Davidson, TN, 48.5 miles away.

Daylight in Lafayette

At 36.52° N, Lafayette 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 Lafayette

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Red Boiling Springs, 10.1 miles away, with 1,214 people.