Ocala, Florida

Ocala population, 2020 to 2024

Ocala added 6,366 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1,422. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 54th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Ocala is 3.2 times that size.

Ocala covers 48.00 square miles of land, for 1,464 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Ocala is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ocala is in

All of Ocala's residents live in Marion County, which had 428,905 residents in 2024. Ocala holds 16.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ocala

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Ocala by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 34470, 34471, 34474, 34475. 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 Ocala is

The Census internal point of Ocala is at 29.177500, -82.151000. Tallahassee, the capital, is 154.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gainesville, FL (148,720 people), 36.7 miles away.

Daylight in Ocala

At 29.18° N, Ocala gets about 14 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ocala

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Belleview, 9.9 miles away, with 6,156 people.