Estero, Florida

Estero population, 2020 to 2024

Estero added 1,388 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +64. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 142nd; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Estero is 1.8 times that size.

Estero covers 24.37 square miles of land and 1.02 of water, for 1,577 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Estero is less dense than the typical town.

What county Estero is in

All of Estero's residents live in Lee County, which had 860,959 residents in 2024. Estero holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Estero

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Estero by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 33928, 33967, 34135. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Estero is

The Census internal point of Estero is at 26.425600, -81.799500. Tallahassee, the capital, is 315.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bonita Springs, FL (57,112 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cape Coral, FL, 19.4 miles away.

Daylight in Estero

At 26.43° N, Estero 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 Estero

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Bonita Springs, 5.0 miles away, with 57,112 people.