Leesburg, Florida

Leesburg population, 2020 to 2024

Leesburg added 10,688 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +39.4%. In the latest year it moved by +5,902. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Leesburg is 1.7 times that size.

Leesburg covers 39.34 square miles of land and 5.58 of water, for 961 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Leesburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Leesburg is in

All of Leesburg's residents live in Lake County, which had 444,204 residents in 2024. Leesburg holds 8.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Leesburg

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Leesburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 34736, 34748, 34762. 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 Leesburg is

The Census internal point of Leesburg is at 28.717200, -81.903100. Tallahassee, the capital, is 185.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clermont, FL (50,851 people), 17.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Deltona, FL, 43.9 miles away.

Daylight in Leesburg

At 28.72° N, Leesburg gets about 13 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Leesburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Howey-in-the-Hills, 7.3 miles away, with 1,693 people.