Florida · Census place 1253000

Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in Orange County, Florida with an estimated 334,854 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 4th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
334,854
#4 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
+8.8%
+26,986 people
Land area
111.1 sq mi
+ 8.21 sq mi water
Density
3,014 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Orlando. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

Orlando population, 2020 to 2024

Orlando added 26,986 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.8%. In the latest year it moved by +7,464. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 68th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Orlando is 15.3 times that size.

307.9k2020309.9k2021318.8k2022327.4k2023334.9k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 307,785. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Orlando covers 111.11 square miles of land and 8.21 of water, for 3,014 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Orlando is denser than the typical town.

What county Orlando is in

All of Orlando's residents live in Orange County, which had 1,533,646 residents in 2024. Orlando holds 21.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Orlando

18 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Orlando by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32801, 32803, 32804, 32805, 32806, 32807, 32808, 32811, 32812, 32814, 32819, 32822, 32824, 32827, 32829, 32832, 32835, 32839. 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 Orlando is

The Census internal point of Orlando is at 28.408700, -81.254800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 229.8 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tampa, FL (414,547 people), 80.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Deltona, FL, 34.4 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 28 m (92 ft) above sea level.

Internal point

Decimal
28.408700, -81.254800
DMS
28°24'31.32"N 81°15'17.28"W
UTM
17N 475042.5E 3142503.9N
Geohash
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Plus code
76WWCP5W+F3
Time zone
America/New_York

Daylight in Orlando

At 28.41° N, Orlando gets about 13 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Orlando daylight page.

Places near Orlando

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Belle Isle, 7.0 miles away, with 7,741 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Orlando, FL?

334,854 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 26,986 (8.8%) from 307,868 in July 2020.

What county is Orlando in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Orlando?

18 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 32801, 32803, 32804, 32805, 32806, 32807, 32808, 32811, 32812, 32814, 32819, 32822, and more.

How far is Orlando from Tallahassee?

229.8 miles (369.9 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Orlando.

What is the nearest larger city to Orlando?

Tampa, FL, with 414,547 residents, 80.5 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)
  5. 05Open-Meteo forecast API (time zone and Copernicus GLO-90 elevation) (last verified 2026-09-30)

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