Fort Pierce, Florida

Fort Pierce population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Pierce added 3,144 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.6%. In the latest year it moved by +1,014. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 89th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Fort Pierce is 2.3 times that size.

Fort Pierce covers 24.70 square miles of land and 6.00 of water, for 2,057 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Fort Pierce is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fort Pierce is in

All of Fort Pierce's residents live in St. Lucie County, which had 390,670 residents in 2024. Fort Pierce holds 13.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Pierce

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fort Pierce by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 34945, 34947, 34949, 34950, 34981, 34982. 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 Pierce is

The Census internal point of Fort Pierce is at 27.426100, -80.342500. Tallahassee, the capital, is 316.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Port St. Lucie, FL (258,575 people), 10.4 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Pierce

At 27.43° N, Fort Pierce gets about 13 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Pierce

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Port St. Lucie, 10.4 miles away, with 258,575 people.