Florida · Census place 1240875

Live Oak, Florida

Live Oak is a city in Suwannee County, Florida with an estimated 7,200 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 200th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
7,200
#200 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
+6.7%
+454 people
Land area
7.6 sq mi
Density
944 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Live Oak. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

Live Oak population, 2020 to 2024

Live Oak added 454 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.7%. In the latest year it moved by +97. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 87th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Live Oak is 33% of it.

6,74620206,86020217,03320227,10320237,2002024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 6,737. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Live Oak covers 7.63 square miles of land, for 944 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Live Oak is less dense than the typical town.

What county Live Oak is in

All of Live Oak's residents live in Suwannee County, which had 47,536 residents in 2024. Live Oak holds 15.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Live Oak

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Live Oak by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32064. 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 Live Oak is

The Census internal point of Live Oak is at 30.295700, -82.985100. Tallahassee, the capital, is 77.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lake City, FL (12,783 people), 21.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Gainesville, FL, 57.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
30.295700, -82.985100
DMS
30°17'44.52"N 82°59'6.36"W
UTM
17N 309093.0E 3353220.8N
Geohash
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Plus code
862V72W7+7X

Daylight in Live Oak

At 30.30° N, Live Oak gets about 14 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 12 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 Live Oak

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Jasper, 11.5 miles away, with 3,549 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Live Oak, FL?

7,200 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 454 (6.7%) from 6,746 in July 2020.

What county is Live Oak in?

Suwannee County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Live Oak?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 32064.

How far is Live Oak from Tallahassee?

77.9 miles (125.3 km) in a straight line, heading W from Live Oak.

What is the nearest larger city to Live Oak?

Lake City, FL, with 12,783 residents, 21.7 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.