Plainview, Tennessee

Plainview population, 2020 to 2024

Plainview added 161 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.8%. In the latest year it moved by +45.

Plainview covers 6.37 square miles of land, for 349 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Plainview is less dense than the typical town.

What county Plainview is in

All of Plainview's residents live in Union County, which had 21,064 residents in 2024. Plainview holds 10.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Plainview

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Plainview by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37721, 37779. 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 Plainview is

The Census internal point of Plainview is at 36.180700, -83.793300. Nashville, the capital, is 166.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Maynardville, TN (2,598 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 16.9 miles away.

Daylight in Plainview

At 36.18° N, Plainview gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Plainview

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Luttrell, 3.2 miles away, with 1,086 people.