Florida · Census place 1213175

Cocoa Beach, Florida

Cocoa Beach is a city in Brevard County, Florida with an estimated 11,386 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 164th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
11,386
#164 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
+0.3%
+38 people
Land area
4.7 sq mi
+ 10.53 sq mi water
Density
2,443 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Cocoa Beach. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

Cocoa Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Cocoa Beach added 38 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by -54. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 206th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Cocoa Beach is 52% of it.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 11,354. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Cocoa Beach covers 4.66 square miles of land and 10.53 of water, for 2,443 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Cocoa Beach is close to the typical town.

What county Cocoa Beach is in

All of Cocoa Beach's residents live in Brevard County, which had 658,447 residents in 2024. Cocoa Beach holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cocoa Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cocoa Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32931. 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 Cocoa Beach is

The Census internal point of Cocoa Beach is at 28.329100, -80.627500. Tallahassee, the capital, is 263.8 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rockledge, FL (31,429 people), 6.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Palm Bay, FL, 26.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
28.329100, -80.627500
DMS
28°19'44.76"N 80°37'39.00"W
UTM
17N 536513.4E 3133715.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
76WX89HF+J2

Daylight in Cocoa Beach

At 28.33° N, Cocoa Beach gets about 13 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cocoa Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Cape Canaveral, 4.6 miles away, with 10,014 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Cocoa Beach, FL?

11,386 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 38 (0.3%) from 11,348 in July 2020.

What county is Cocoa Beach in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Cocoa Beach?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 32931.

How far is Cocoa Beach from Tallahassee?

263.8 miles (424.6 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Cocoa Beach.

What is the nearest larger city to Cocoa Beach?

Rockledge, FL, with 31,429 residents, 6.7 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.