Fort Myers Beach, Florida

Fort Myers Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Myers Beach lost 275 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.9%. In the latest year it moved by -18. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 229th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Fort Myers Beach is 24% of it.

Fort Myers Beach covers 2.78 square miles of land and 3.39 of water, for 1,909 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Fort Myers Beach is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fort Myers Beach is in

All of Fort Myers Beach's residents live in Lee County, which had 860,959 residents in 2024. Fort Myers Beach holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Myers Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Myers Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 33931. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Fort Myers Beach is

The Census internal point of Fort Myers Beach is at 26.430200, -81.914000. Tallahassee, the capital, is 312.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Estero, FL (38,443 people), 7.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cape Coral, FL, 15.6 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Myers Beach

At 26.43° N, Fort Myers 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 Fort Myers Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Estero, 7.1 miles away, with 38,443 people.