Parsons, Tennessee

Parsons population, 2020 to 2024

Parsons added 61 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +34.

Parsons covers 4.05 square miles of land, for 533 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Parsons is less dense than the typical town.

What county Parsons is in

All of Parsons's residents live in Decatur County, which had 11,800 residents in 2024. Parsons holds 18.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Parsons

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Parsons by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38363. 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 Parsons is

The Census internal point of Parsons is at 35.651200, -88.123100. Nashville, the capital, is 83.0 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lexington, TN (8,037 people), 14.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Clarksville, TN, 76.7 miles away.

Daylight in Parsons

At 35.65° N, Parsons gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Parsons

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Lexington, 14.2 miles away, with 8,037 people.