Gulf Breeze, Florida

Gulf Breeze population, 2020 to 2024

Gulf Breeze added 613 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.7%. In the latest year it moved by +125. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 57th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Gulf Breeze is 32% of it.

Gulf Breeze covers 4.68 square miles of land and 17.46 of water, for 1,486 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Gulf Breeze is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gulf Breeze is in

All of Gulf Breeze's residents live in Santa Rosa County, which had 207,653 residents in 2024. Gulf Breeze holds 3.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gulf Breeze

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gulf Breeze by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32561. 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 Gulf Breeze is

The Census internal point of Gulf Breeze is at 30.368300, -87.173400. Tallahassee, the capital, is 172.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pensacola, FL (53,898 people), 5.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 59.3 miles away.

Daylight in Gulf Breeze

At 30.37° N, Gulf Breeze 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 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gulf Breeze

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Pensacola, 5.1 miles away, with 53,898 people.