Fernandina Beach, Florida

Fernandina Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Fernandina Beach added 582 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.4%. In the latest year it moved by +13. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 123rd; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Fernandina Beach is 62% of it.

Fernandina Beach covers 11.84 square miles of land and 0.79 of water, for 1,155 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Fernandina Beach is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fernandina Beach is in

All of Fernandina Beach's residents live in Nassau County, which had 104,376 residents in 2024. Fernandina Beach holds 13.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fernandina Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fernandina Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32034. 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 Fernandina Beach is

The Census internal point of Fernandina Beach is at 30.658100, -81.451500. Tallahassee, the capital, is 169.0 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Marys, GA (20,119 people), 10.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jacksonville, FL, 25.5 miles away.

Daylight in Fernandina Beach

At 30.66° N, Fernandina Beach gets about 14 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fernandina Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Atlantic Beach, 22.2 miles away, with 13,279 people.