Mountain City, Tennessee

Mountain City population, 2020 to 2024

Mountain City added 69 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +23.

Mountain City covers 3.37 square miles of land, for 738 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Mountain City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mountain City is in

All of Mountain City's residents live in Johnson County, which had 18,506 residents in 2024. Mountain City holds 13.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mountain City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mountain City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 37683. 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 Mountain City is

The Census internal point of Mountain City is at 36.469600, -81.804900. Nashville, the capital, is 278.0 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Abingdon, VA (8,316 people), 18.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 89.7 miles away.

Daylight in Mountain City

At 36.47° N, Mountain City gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mountain City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Bristol, 23.7 miles away, with 27,867 people.