Starke, Florida

Starke population, 2020 to 2024

Starke added 168 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +33. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 167th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Starke is 27% of it.

Starke covers 7.18 square miles of land, for 831 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Starke is less dense than the typical town.

What county Starke is in

All of Starke's residents live in Bradford County, which had 28,075 residents in 2024. Starke holds 21.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Starke

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Starke by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32091. 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 Starke is

The Census internal point of Starke is at 29.947500, -82.112900. Tallahassee, the capital, is 133.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Macclenny, FL (8,178 people), 23.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Gainesville, FL, 23.2 miles away.

Daylight in Starke

At 29.95° N, Starke gets about 14 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Starke

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Keystone Heights, 12.3 miles away, with 1,566 people.