Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton population, 2020 to 2024

Boca Raton added 3,988 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.1%. In the latest year it moved by +817. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 131st; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Boca Raton is 4.7 times that size.

Boca Raton covers 29.18 square miles of land and 2.41 of water, for 3,504 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Boca Raton is denser than the typical town.

What county Boca Raton is in

All of Boca Raton's residents live in Palm Beach County, which had 1,582,055 residents in 2024. Boca Raton holds 6.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Boca Raton

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Boca Raton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33431, 33432, 33433, 33434, 33486, 33487, 33496. 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 Boca Raton is

The Census internal point of Boca Raton is at 26.372700, -80.103700. Tallahassee, the capital, is 378.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pompano Beach, FL (118,104 people), 9.3 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Boca Raton

At 26.37° N, Boca Raton gets about 13 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Boca Raton daylight page.

Places near Boca Raton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Highland Beach, 3.6 miles away, with 4,368 people.