Tennessee · Census place 4751080

Mount Pleasant, Tennessee

Mount Pleasant is a city in Maury County, Tennessee with an estimated 4,871 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 106th largest of 232 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,871
#106 of 232 in Tennessee
Change since 2020
+1.4%
+66 people
Land area
12.6 sq mi
+ 0.03 sq mi water
Density
387 / sq mi
State median 947
Orange pin: Mount Pleasant. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Nashville.

Mount Pleasant population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Pleasant added 66 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +42.

4,80520204,84520214,80920224,82920234,8712024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,785. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Mount Pleasant covers 12.58 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 387 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Mount Pleasant is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Pleasant is in

All of Mount Pleasant's residents live in Maury County, which had 113,411 residents in 2024. Mount Pleasant holds 4.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Pleasant

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mount Pleasant by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38401, 38474. 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 Mount Pleasant is

The Census internal point of Mount Pleasant is at 35.548200, -87.186900. Nashville, the capital, is 48.3 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Columbia, TN (48,812 people), 9.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Murfreesboro, TN, 47.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.548200, -87.186900
DMS
35°32'53.52"N 87°11'12.84"W
UTM
16N 483059.6E 3933855.2N
Geohash
dn640p27m
Plus code
867JGRX7+76

Daylight in Mount Pleasant

At 35.55° N, Mount Pleasant gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Pleasant

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Columbia, 9.6 miles away, with 48,812 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Mount Pleasant, TN?

4,871 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 66 (1.4%) from 4,805 in July 2020.

What county is Mount Pleasant in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Mount Pleasant?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 38401, 38474.

How far is Mount Pleasant from Nashville?

48.3 miles (77.7 km) in a straight line, heading NNE from Mount Pleasant.

What is the nearest larger city to Mount Pleasant?

Columbia, TN, with 48,812 residents, 9.6 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.