Sparta, Tennessee

Sparta population, 2020 to 2024

Sparta lost 32 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +56.

Sparta covers 6.72 square miles of land, for 742 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Sparta is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sparta is in

All of Sparta's residents live in White County, which had 29,108 residents in 2024. Sparta holds 17.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sparta

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sparta by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38583. 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 Sparta is

The Census internal point of Sparta is at 35.934700, -85.472600. Nashville, the capital, is 75.0 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cookeville, TN (37,102 people), 14.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Murfreesboro, TN, 53.4 miles away.

Daylight in Sparta

At 35.93° N, Sparta 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 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sparta

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Spencer, 13.5 miles away, with 1,590 people.