Florida · Census place 1254200

Palm Coast, Florida

Palm Coast is a city in Flagler County, Florida with an estimated 106,729 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 23rd largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
106,729
#23 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
+19.0%
+17,008 people
Land area
96.3 sq mi
+ 1.20 sq mi water
Density
1,108 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Palm Coast. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

Palm Coast population, 2020 to 2024

Palm Coast added 17,008 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +19.0%. In the latest year it moved by +4,279. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 25th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Palm Coast is 4.9 times that size.

89.7k202093.8k202198.6k2022102.5k2023106.7k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 89,230. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Palm Coast covers 96.29 square miles of land and 1.20 of water, for 1,108 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Palm Coast is less dense than the typical town.

What county Palm Coast is in

All of Palm Coast's residents live in Flagler County, which had 136,744 residents in 2024. Palm Coast holds 78.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palm Coast

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Palm Coast by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32137, 32164. 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 Coast is

The Census internal point of Palm Coast is at 29.536800, -81.242600. Tallahassee, the capital, is 192.2 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jacksonville, FL (1,009,833 people), 60.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Deltona, FL, 43.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Internal point

Decimal
29.536800, -81.242600
DMS
29°32'12.48"N 81°14'33.36"W
UTM
17N 476493.9E 3267485.4N
Geohash
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Plus code
76XWGQP4+PX
Time zone
America/New_York

Daylight in Palm Coast

At 29.54° N, Palm Coast gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 47 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 Coast daylight page.

Places near Palm Coast

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Flagler Beach, 8.0 miles away, with 5,568 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Palm Coast, FL?

106,729 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 17,008 (19.0%) from 89,721 in July 2020.

What county is Palm Coast in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Palm Coast?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 32137, 32164.

How far is Palm Coast from Tallahassee?

192.2 miles (309.3 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Palm Coast.

What is the nearest larger city to Palm Coast?

Jacksonville, FL, with 1,009,833 residents, 60.7 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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