Palm Bay, Florida

Palm Bay population, 2020 to 2024

Palm Bay added 21,855 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +18.2%. In the latest year it moved by +5,939. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Palm Bay is 6.5 times that size.

Palm Bay covers 86.67 square miles of land and 1.48 of water, for 1,639 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Palm Bay is less dense than the typical town.

What county Palm Bay is in

All of Palm Bay's residents live in Brevard County, which had 658,447 residents in 2024. Palm Bay holds 21.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palm Bay

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Palm Bay by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32905, 32907, 32908, 32909, 32976. 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 Palm Bay is

The Census internal point of Palm Bay is at 27.954800, -80.665000. Tallahassee, the capital, is 277.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Orlando, FL (334,854 people), 47.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Palm Bay

At 27.95° N, Palm Bay gets about 13 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 33 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 Palm Bay daylight page.

Places near Palm Bay

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Malabar, 5.5 miles away, with 3,175 people.