Florida · Census place 1215575

Cross City, Florida

Cross City is a town in Dixie County, Florida with an estimated 1,816 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 299th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,816
#299 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
+7.1%
+120 people
Land area
1.9 sq mi
Density
982 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Cross City. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

Cross City population, 2020 to 2024

Cross City added 120 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.1%. In the latest year it moved by +22.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,693. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Cross City covers 1.85 square miles of land, for 982 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Cross City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cross City is in

All of Cross City's residents live in Dixie County, which had 17,614 residents in 2024. Cross City holds 10.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cross City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cross City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 32628. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Cross City is

The Census internal point of Cross City is at 29.638600, -83.124800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 88.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chiefland, FL (2,444 people), 18.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Gainesville, FL, 46.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
29.638600, -83.124800
DMS
29°38'18.96"N 83°07'29.28"W
UTM
17N 294305.2E 3280627.1N
Geohash
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Plus code
76XRJVQG+C3

Daylight in Cross City

At 29.64° N, Cross City gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cross City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Fanning Springs, 12.5 miles away, with 1,341 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Cross City, FL?

1,816 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 120 (7.1%) from 1,696 in July 2020.

What county is Cross City in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Cross City?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 32628.

How far is Cross City from Tallahassee?

88.5 miles (142.4 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Cross City.

What is the nearest larger city to Cross City?

Chiefland, FL, with 2,444 residents, 18.5 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.