Rockledge, Florida

Rockledge population, 2020 to 2024

Rockledge added 3,723 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.4%. In the latest year it moved by +1,854. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 37th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Rockledge is 1.4 times that size.

Rockledge covers 13.22 square miles of land and 1.72 of water, for 2,377 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Rockledge is close to the typical town.

What county Rockledge is in

All of Rockledge's residents live in Brevard County, which had 658,447 residents in 2024. Rockledge holds 4.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockledge

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Rockledge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32926, 32955. 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 Rockledge is

The Census internal point of Rockledge is at 28.321400, -80.737800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 258.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Melbourne, FL (87,561 people), 15.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Palm Bay, FL, 25.7 miles away.

Daylight in Rockledge

At 28.32° N, Rockledge gets about 13 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rockledge

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Cocoa, 4.1 miles away, with 19,909 people.