Clearwater, Florida

Clearwater population, 2020 to 2024

Clearwater lost 532 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -744. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 213th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Clearwater is 5.3 times that size.

Clearwater covers 26.18 square miles of land and 12.13 of water, for 4,462 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Clearwater is denser than the typical town.

What county Clearwater is in

All of Clearwater's residents live in Pinellas County, which had 965,870 residents in 2024. Clearwater holds 12.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clearwater

8 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Clearwater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33755, 33756, 33759, 33761, 33763, 33764, 33765, 33767. 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 Clearwater is

The Census internal point of Clearwater is at 27.979400, -82.771300. Tallahassee, the capital, is 192.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Petersburg, FL (267,102 people), 16.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 21 m (69 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Clearwater

At 27.98° N, Clearwater gets about 13 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 33 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 Clearwater daylight page.

Places near Clearwater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Belleair, 3.9 miles away, with 4,614 people.