Sweetwater, Tennessee

Sweetwater population, 2020 to 2024

Sweetwater added 239 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +46. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 56th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Sweetwater is 55% of it.

Sweetwater covers 8.98 square miles of land, for 743 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Sweetwater is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Sweetwater spans

Sweetwater crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 6,676 residents as follows; Monroe County holds 99.9% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sweetwater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sweetwater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37874. 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 Sweetwater is

The Census internal point of Sweetwater is at 35.602600, -84.473400. Nashville, the capital, is 135.1 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Loudon, TN (6,942 people), 11.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 38.8 miles away.

Daylight in Sweetwater

At 35.60° N, Sweetwater gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sweetwater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Madisonville, 8.3 miles away, with 5,395 people.