Tennessee · Census place 4778320

Watertown, Tennessee

Watertown is a city in Wilson County, Tennessee with an estimated 1,642 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 197th largest of 232 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,642
#197 of 232 in Tennessee
Change since 2020
+5.6%
+87 people
Land area
1.4 sq mi
Density
1,140 / sq mi
State median 947
Orange pin: Watertown. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Nashville.

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Watertown population, 2020 to 2024

Watertown added 87 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.6%. In the latest year it moved by +29.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,552. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Watertown covers 1.44 square miles of land, for 1,140 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Watertown is denser than the typical town.

What county Watertown is in

All of Watertown's residents live in Wilson County, which had 169,948 residents in 2024. Watertown holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Watertown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Watertown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37184. 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 Watertown is

The Census internal point of Watertown is at 36.100700, -86.139400. Nashville, the capital, is 36.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lebanon, TN (51,501 people), 13.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Murfreesboro, TN, 23.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
36.100700, -86.139400
DMS
36°06'2.52"N 86°08'21.84"W
UTM
16N 577466.0E 3995460.5N
Geohash
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Plus code
868M4V26+76

Daylight in Watertown

At 36.10° N, Watertown gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Watertown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Gordonsville, 13.0 miles away, with 1,387 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Watertown, TN?

1,642 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 87 (5.6%) from 1,555 in July 2020.

What county is Watertown in?

Wilson County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Watertown?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 37184.

How far is Watertown from Nashville?

36.3 miles (58.3 km) in a straight line, heading W from Watertown.

What is the nearest larger city to Watertown?

Lebanon, TN, with 51,501 residents, 13.3 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.