Florida · Census place 1201625

Apalachicola, Florida

Apalachicola is a city in Franklin County, Florida with an estimated 2,461 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 277th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,461
#277 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
+5.3%
+123 people
Land area
1.9 sq mi
+ 0.70 sq mi water
Density
1,275 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Apalachicola. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

Apalachicola population, 2020 to 2024

Apalachicola added 123 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.3%. In the latest year it moved by +39.

2,33820202,36120212,39620222,42220232,4612024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,333. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Apalachicola covers 1.93 square miles of land and 0.70 of water, for 1,275 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Apalachicola is less dense than the typical town.

What county Apalachicola is in

All of Apalachicola's residents live in Franklin County, which had 12,979 residents in 2024. Apalachicola holds 19.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Apalachicola

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Apalachicola by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32320. 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 Apalachicola is

The Census internal point of Apalachicola is at 29.727400, -84.994000. Tallahassee, the capital, is 65.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Port St. Joe, FL (3,856 people), 19.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tallahassee, FL, 67.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
29.727400, -84.994000
DMS
29°43'38.64"N 84°59'38.40"W
UTM
16N 694020.9E 3290264.3N
Geohash
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Plus code
76XQP2G4+X9

Daylight in Apalachicola

At 29.73° N, Apalachicola gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Apalachicola

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Port St. Joe, 19.9 miles away, with 3,856 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Apalachicola, FL?

2,461 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 123 (5.3%) from 2,338 in July 2020.

What county is Apalachicola in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Apalachicola?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 32320.

How far is Apalachicola from Tallahassee?

65.0 miles (104.6 km) in a straight line, heading NE from Apalachicola.

What is the nearest larger city to Apalachicola?

Port St. Joe, FL, with 3,856 residents, 19.9 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)

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