Delray Beach, Florida

Delray Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Delray Beach added 3,325 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1,546. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 112th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Delray Beach is 3.2 times that size.

Delray Beach covers 15.92 square miles of land and 0.59 of water, for 4,406 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Delray Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Delray Beach is in

All of Delray Beach's residents live in Palm Beach County, which had 1,582,055 residents in 2024. Delray Beach holds 4.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Delray Beach

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Delray Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33444, 33445, 33483. 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 Delray Beach is

The Census internal point of Delray Beach is at 26.455900, -80.090400. Tallahassee, the capital, is 374.8 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Boynton Beach, FL (83,095 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Boca Raton, FL, 5.8 miles away.

Daylight in Delray Beach

At 26.46° N, Delray Beach gets about 13 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Delray Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Highland Beach, 3.5 miles away, with 4,368 people.