Florida · Census place 1225175
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is a city in Alachua County, Florida with an estimated 148,720 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 13th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 148,720
- #13 of 333 in Florida
- Change since 2020
- +4.5%
- +6,444 people
- Land area
- 64.0 sq mi
- + 1.18 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,323 / sq mi
- State median 2,498
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Gainesville population, 2020 to 2024
Gainesville added 6,444 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +1,196. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 121st; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Gainesville is 6.8 times that size.
Gainesville covers 64.01 square miles of land and 1.18 of water, for 2,323 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Gainesville is close to the typical town.
What county Gainesville is in
All of Gainesville's residents live in Alachua County, which had 291,782 residents in 2024. Gainesville holds 51.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Gainesville
9 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Gainesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32601, 32603, 32605, 32607, 32608, 32609, 32610, 32612, 32653. 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 Gainesville is
The Census internal point of Gainesville is at 29.679500, -82.346800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 127.0 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jacksonville, FL (1,009,833 people), 61.2 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 57 m (187 ft) above sea level.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 29.679500, -82.346800
- DMS
- 29°40'46.20"N 82°20'48.48"W
- UTM
- 17N 369682.7E 3284030.7N
- Geohash
- djm2y4uzs
- Plus code
- 76XVMMH3+R7
- Time zone
- America/New_York
Daylight in Gainesville
At 29.68° N, Gainesville gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 49 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 Gainesville daylight page.
Places near Gainesville
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Alachua, 9.7 miles away, with 10,856 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Gainesville, FL?
148,720 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 6,444 (4.5%) from 142,276 in July 2020.
What county is Gainesville in?
Alachua County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Gainesville?
9 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 32601, 32603, 32605, 32607, 32608, 32609, 32610, 32612, 32653.
How far is Gainesville from Tallahassee?
127.0 miles (204.4 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Gainesville.
What is the nearest larger city to Gainesville?
Jacksonville, FL, with 1,009,833 residents, 61.2 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
- 05Open-Meteo forecast API (time zone and Copernicus GLO-90 elevation) (last verified 2026-09-30)
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