Green Cove Springs, Florida

Green Cove Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Green Cove Springs added 219 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by -63. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 179th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Green Cove Springs is 46% of it.

Green Cove Springs covers 8.57 square miles of land and 2.74 of water, for 1,177 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Green Cove Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Green Cove Springs is in

All of Green Cove Springs's residents live in Clay County, which had 236,760 residents in 2024. Green Cove Springs holds 4.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Green Cove Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Green Cove Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32043. 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 Green Cove Springs is

The Census internal point of Green Cove Springs is at 29.985300, -81.681000. Tallahassee, the capital, is 158.4 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Augustine, FL (16,033 people), 23.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jacksonville, FL, 24.3 miles away.

Daylight in Green Cove Springs

At 29.99° N, Green Cove Springs gets about 14 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Green Cove Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Orange Park, 12.9 miles away, with 8,993 people.