Rockwood, Tennessee

Rockwood population, 2020 to 2024

Rockwood added 240 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.4%. In the latest year it moved by +54. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Rockwood is 47% of it.

Rockwood covers 8.02 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 709 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Rockwood is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rockwood is in

All of Rockwood's residents live in Roane County, which had 56,742 residents in 2024. Rockwood holds 10.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockwood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rockwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37854. 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 Rockwood is

The Census internal point of Rockwood is at 35.870100, -84.674900. Nashville, the capital, is 119.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Harriman, TN (6,216 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 41.2 miles away.

Daylight in Rockwood

At 35.87° N, Rockwood gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rockwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Harriman, 7.5 miles away, with 6,216 people.