Tennessee · Census place 4750580

Mount Carmel, Tennessee

Mount Carmel is a town in Hawkins County, Tennessee with an estimated 5,549 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 101st largest of 232 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
5,549
#101 of 232 in Tennessee
Change since 2020
+2.3%
+125 people
Land area
6.6 sq mi
Density
836 / sq mi
State median 947
Orange pin: Mount Carmel. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Nashville.

Mount Carmel population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Carmel added 125 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +31. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 69th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Mount Carmel is 46% of it.

5,42420205,44920215,48920225,51820235,5492024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 5,432. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Mount Carmel covers 6.64 square miles of land, for 836 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Mount Carmel is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Carmel is in

All of Mount Carmel's residents live in Hawkins County, which had 59,371 residents in 2024. Mount Carmel holds 9.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Carmel

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Carmel by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 37645. 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 Mount Carmel is

The Census internal point of Mount Carmel is at 36.564900, -82.667800. Nashville, the capital, is 230.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Church Hill, TN (7,310 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 82.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
36.564900, -82.667800
DMS
36°33'53.64"N 82°40'4.08"W
UTM
17N 350758.3E 4047901.3N
Geohash
dnt0nb7ju
Plus code
868VH87J+XV

Daylight in Mount Carmel

At 36.56° N, Mount Carmel 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 Mount Carmel

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Church Hill, 4.0 miles away, with 7,310 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Mount Carmel, TN?

5,549 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 125 (2.3%) from 5,424 in July 2020.

What county is Mount Carmel in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Mount Carmel?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 37645.

How far is Mount Carmel from Nashville?

230.6 miles (371.2 km) in a straight line, heading W from Mount Carmel.

What is the nearest larger city to Mount Carmel?

Church Hill, TN, with 7,310 residents, 4.0 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.