Florida · Census place 1262425

Safety Harbor, Florida

Safety Harbor is a city in Pinellas County, Florida with an estimated 16,972 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 138th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
16,972
#138 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
-0.5%
-87 people
Land area
4.9 sq mi
+ 0.18 sq mi water
Density
3,443 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Safety Harbor. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

Safety Harbor population, 2020 to 2024

Safety Harbor lost 87 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -94. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 215th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Safety Harbor is 77% of it.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 17,070. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Safety Harbor covers 4.93 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 3,443 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Safety Harbor is denser than the typical town.

What county Safety Harbor is in

All of Safety Harbor's residents live in Pinellas County, which had 965,870 residents in 2024. Safety Harbor holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Safety Harbor

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Safety Harbor by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 34695. 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 Safety Harbor is

The Census internal point of Safety Harbor is at 28.006300, -82.697800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 193.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clearwater, FL (116,811 people), 4.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
28.006300, -82.697800
DMS
28°00'22.68"N 82°41'52.08"W
UTM
17N 333064.0E 3099061.9N
Geohash
dhvpq4mk9
Plus code
76WV2842+GV

Daylight in Safety Harbor

At 28.01° N, Safety Harbor 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.

Places near Safety Harbor

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Oldsmar, 3.3 miles away, with 14,831 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Safety Harbor, FL?

16,972 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 87 (0.5%) from 17,059 in July 2020.

What county is Safety Harbor in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Safety Harbor?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 34695.

How far is Safety Harbor from Tallahassee?

193.2 miles (311.0 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Safety Harbor.

What is the nearest larger city to Safety Harbor?

Clearwater, FL, with 116,811 residents, 4.8 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)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.