Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Lauderdale added 7,876 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.3%. In the latest year it moved by +2,769. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 125th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Fort Lauderdale is 8.7 times that size.

Fort Lauderdale covers 34.58 square miles of land and 1.72 of water, for 5,513 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Fort Lauderdale is denser than the typical town.

What county Fort Lauderdale is in

All of Fort Lauderdale's residents live in Broward County, which had 2,037,472 residents in 2024. Fort Lauderdale holds 9.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Lauderdale

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fort Lauderdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33301, 33304, 33305, 33306, 33308, 33309, 33311, 33312, 33315, 33316, 33334. 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 Fort Lauderdale is

The Census internal point of Fort Lauderdale is at 26.141200, -80.146700. Tallahassee, the capital, is 389.0 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hialeah, FL (235,388 people), 21.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pompano Beach, FL, 7.0 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 4 m (13 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Fort Lauderdale

At 26.14° N, Fort Lauderdale gets about 13 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Fort Lauderdale daylight page.

Places near Fort Lauderdale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Wilton Manors, 1.3 miles away, with 11,788 people.