Fort Myers, Florida

Fort Myers population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Myers added 12,630 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.5%. In the latest year it moved by +1,540. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Fort Myers is 4.6 times that size.

Fort Myers covers 40.05 square miles of land and 9.19 of water, for 2,495 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Fort Myers is close to the typical town.

What county Fort Myers is in

All of Fort Myers's residents live in Lee County, which had 860,959 residents in 2024. Fort Myers holds 11.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Myers

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fort Myers by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33901, 33905, 33907, 33913, 33916, 33966. 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 Myers is

The Census internal point of Fort Myers is at 26.619800, -81.831700. Tallahassee, the capital, is 302.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cape Coral, FL (233,025 people), 10.4 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Myers

At 26.62° N, Fort Myers gets about 13 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Myers

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Cape Coral, 10.4 miles away, with 233,025 people.