St. Petersburg, Florida

St. Petersburg population, 2020 to 2024

St. Petersburg added 7,831 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +2,019. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 162nd; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so St. Petersburg is 12.2 times that size.

St. Petersburg covers 61.80 square miles of land and 73.66 of water, for 4,322 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so St. Petersburg is denser than the typical town.

What county St. Petersburg is in

All of St. Petersburg's residents live in Pinellas County, which had 965,870 residents in 2024. St. Petersburg holds 27.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in St. Petersburg

14 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap St. Petersburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33701, 33702, 33703, 33704, 33705, 33707, 33710, 33711, 33712, 33713, 33714, 33715, 33716, 33762. 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 St. Petersburg is

The Census internal point of St. Petersburg is at 27.762700, -82.644100. Tallahassee, the capital, is 209.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tampa, FL (414,547 people), 17.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Clearwater, FL, 16.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in St. Petersburg

At 27.76° N, St. Petersburg gets about 13 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the St. Petersburg daylight page.

Places near St. Petersburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Gulfport, 4.2 miles away, with 11,645 people.