Punta Gorda, Florida

Punta Gorda population, 2020 to 2024

Punta Gorda added 758 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.9%. In the latest year it moved by -25. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 137th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Punta Gorda is 93% of it.

Punta Gorda covers 15.45 square miles of land and 16.89 of water, for 1,321 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Punta Gorda is less dense than the typical town.

What county Punta Gorda is in

All of Punta Gorda's residents live in Charlotte County, which had 212,122 residents in 2024. Punta Gorda holds 9.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Punta Gorda

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Punta Gorda by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33950, 33955. 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 Punta Gorda is

The Census internal point of Punta Gorda is at 26.897800, -82.065800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 279.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Port, FL (92,875 people), 13.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cape Coral, FL, 18.1 miles away.

Daylight in Punta Gorda

At 26.90° N, Punta Gorda gets about 13 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Punta Gorda

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is North Port, 13.8 miles away, with 92,875 people.