Tennessee · Census place 4740540

Lakesite, Tennessee

Lakesite is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee with an estimated 1,949 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 176th largest of 232 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,949
#176 of 232 in Tennessee
Change since 2020
+4.5%
+84 people
Land area
1.7 sq mi
Density
1,120 / sq mi
State median 947
Orange pin: Lakesite. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Nashville.

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Lakesite population, 2020 to 2024

Lakesite added 84 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,856. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Lakesite covers 1.74 square miles of land, for 1,120 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Lakesite is denser than the typical town.

What county Lakesite is in

All of Lakesite's residents live in Hamilton County, which had 386,256 residents in 2024. Lakesite holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lakesite

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lakesite by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37343, 37379. 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 Lakesite is

The Census internal point of Lakesite is at 35.202700, -85.141200. Nashville, the capital, is 113.7 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Soddy-Daisy, TN (13,430 people), 4.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chattanooga, TN, 11.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.202700, -85.141200
DMS
35°12'9.72"N 85°08'28.32"W
UTM
16N 669209.3E 3897104.7N
Geohash
dn72q86nd
Plus code
867P6V35+3G

Daylight in Lakesite

At 35.20° N, Lakesite gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lakesite

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Soddy-Daisy, 4.4 miles away, with 13,430 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Lakesite, TN?

1,949 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 84 (4.5%) from 1,865 in July 2020.

What county is Lakesite in?

Hamilton County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Lakesite?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 37343, 37379.

How far is Lakesite from Nashville?

113.7 miles (183.0 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Lakesite.

What is the nearest larger city to Lakesite?

Soddy-Daisy, TN, with 13,430 residents, 4.4 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.