Crystal River, Florida

Crystal River population, 2020 to 2024

Crystal River added 97 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by -13.

Crystal River covers 7.65 square miles of land and 1.11 of water, for 479 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Crystal River is less dense than the typical town.

What county Crystal River is in

All of Crystal River's residents live in Citrus County, which had 170,174 residents in 2024. Crystal River holds 2.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Crystal River

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Crystal River by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 34428, 34429. 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 Crystal River is

The Census internal point of Crystal River is at 28.895500, -82.601900. Tallahassee, the capital, is 146.7 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Inverness, FL (7,887 people), 16.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Gainesville, FL, 56.3 miles away.

Daylight in Crystal River

At 28.90° N, Crystal River gets about 13 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Crystal River

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Inglis, 10.1 miles away, with 1,622 people.