Okeechobee, Florida

Okeechobee population, 2020 to 2024

Okeechobee added 475 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.0%. In the latest year it moved by +111. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 64th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Okeechobee is 26% of it.

Okeechobee covers 4.06 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 1,412 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Okeechobee is less dense than the typical town.

What county Okeechobee is in

All of Okeechobee's residents live in Okeechobee County, which had 42,369 residents in 2024. Okeechobee holds 13.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Okeechobee

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Okeechobee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 34972, 34974. 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 Okeechobee is

The Census internal point of Okeechobee is at 27.241600, -80.829300. Tallahassee, the capital, is 304.0 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Indiantown, FL (6,810 people), 25.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Port St. Lucie, FL, 27.2 miles away.

Daylight in Okeechobee

At 27.24° N, Okeechobee 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 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Okeechobee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Indiantown, 25.2 miles away, with 6,810 people.