Longboat Key, Florida

Longboat Key population, 2020 to 2024

Longboat Key lost 41 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -82. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 216th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Longboat Key is 34% of it.

Longboat Key covers 4.08 square miles of land and 11.92 of water, for 1,829 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Longboat Key is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Longboat Key spans

Longboat Key crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 7,463 residents as follows; Sarasota County holds 63.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Longboat Key

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Longboat Key by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 34228. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Longboat Key is

The Census internal point of Longboat Key is at 27.400500, -82.644200. Tallahassee, the capital, is 232.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bradenton, FL (58,184 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Petersburg, FL, 25.0 miles away.

Daylight in Longboat Key

At 27.40° N, Longboat Key gets about 13 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Longboat Key

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Bradenton, 7.4 miles away, with 58,184 people.