Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Fort Walton Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Walton Beach added 258 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +133. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 193rd; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Fort Walton Beach is 97% of it.

Fort Walton Beach covers 7.64 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 2,773 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Fort Walton Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Fort Walton Beach is in

All of Fort Walton Beach's residents live in Okaloosa County, which had 220,483 residents in 2024. Fort Walton Beach holds 9.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Walton Beach

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fort Walton Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32547, 32548. 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 Walton Beach is

The Census internal point of Fort Walton Beach is at 30.424900, -86.621800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 139.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Crestview, FL (30,727 people), 22.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 90.0 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Walton Beach

At 30.42° N, Fort Walton Beach gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Walton Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Mary Esther, 2.4 miles away, with 4,070 people.