Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota population, 2020 to 2024

Sarasota added 2,566 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by -297. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 119th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Sarasota is 2.6 times that size.

Sarasota covers 14.70 square miles of land and 9.39 of water, for 3,930 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Sarasota is denser than the typical town.

What county Sarasota is in

All of Sarasota's residents live in Sarasota County, which had 476,604 residents in 2024. Sarasota holds 12.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sarasota

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Sarasota by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 34232, 34234, 34236, 34237, 34239. 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 Sarasota is

The Census internal point of Sarasota is at 27.338300, -82.543700. Tallahassee, the capital, is 238.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bradenton, FL (58,184 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Petersburg, FL, 30.0 miles away.

Daylight in Sarasota

At 27.34° N, Sarasota gets about 13 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sarasota

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Longboat Key, 7.5 miles away, with 7,463 people.