Cape Coral, Florida

Cape Coral population, 2020 to 2024

Cape Coral added 37,589 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +19.2%. In the latest year it moved by +6,003. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Cape Coral is 10.6 times that size.

Cape Coral covers 106.25 square miles of land and 13.37 of water, for 2,193 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Cape Coral is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cape Coral is in

All of Cape Coral's residents live in Lee County, which had 860,959 residents in 2024. Cape Coral holds 27.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cape Coral

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Cape Coral by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33904, 33909, 33914, 33990, 33991, 33993. 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 Cape Coral is

The Census internal point of Cape Coral is at 26.643200, -81.997400. Tallahassee, the capital, is 296.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Petersburg, FL (267,102 people), 87.0 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Cape Coral

At 26.64° N, Cape Coral gets about 13 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 21 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 Cape Coral daylight page.

Places near Cape Coral

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Fort Myers, 10.4 miles away, with 99,918 people.