Florida · Census place 1246500

Monticello, Florida

Monticello is a city in Jefferson County, Florida with an estimated 2,754 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 272nd largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,754
#272 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
+5.9%
+154 people
Land area
4.0 sq mi
Density
687 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Monticello. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

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Monticello population, 2020 to 2024

Monticello added 154 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.9%. In the latest year it moved by +35.

2,60020202,59620212,65320222,71920232,7542024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,591. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Monticello covers 4.01 square miles of land, for 687 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Monticello is less dense than the typical town.

What county Monticello is in

All of Monticello's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 15,921 residents in 2024. Monticello holds 17.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Monticello

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Monticello by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32344. 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 Monticello is

The Census internal point of Monticello is at 30.542200, -83.872200. Tallahassee, the capital, is 25.4 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Thomasville, GA (18,604 people), 21.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tallahassee, FL, 23.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
30.542200, -83.872200
DMS
30°32'31.92"N 83°52'19.92"W
UTM
17N 224445.0E 3382379.6N
Geohash
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Plus code
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Daylight in Monticello

At 30.54° N, Monticello gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Monticello

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Tallahassee, 23.4 miles away, with 205,089 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Monticello, FL?

2,754 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 154 (5.9%) from 2,600 in July 2020.

What county is Monticello in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Monticello?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 32344.

How far is Monticello from Tallahassee?

25.4 miles (40.8 km) in a straight line, heading WSW from Monticello.

What is the nearest larger city to Monticello?

Thomasville, GA, with 18,604 residents, 21.5 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.