Palmetto, Florida

Palmetto population, 2020 to 2024

Palmetto added 349 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by -14. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 174th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Palmetto is 62% of it.

Palmetto covers 5.37 square miles of land and 0.48 of water, for 2,548 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Palmetto is close to the typical town.

What county Palmetto is in

All of Palmetto's residents live in Manatee County, which had 458,352 residents in 2024. Palmetto holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palmetto

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Palmetto by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 34221. 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 Palmetto is

The Census internal point of Palmetto is at 27.525100, -82.575000. Tallahassee, the capital, is 226.1 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bradenton, FL (58,184 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Petersburg, FL, 17.0 miles away.

Daylight in Palmetto

At 27.53° N, Palmetto gets about 13 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Palmetto

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Bradenton, 2.4 miles away, with 58,184 people.