Florida · Census place 1270345
Sweetwater, Florida
Sweetwater is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida with an estimated 21,321 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 116th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 21,321
- #116 of 333 in Florida
- Change since 2020
- +10.6%
- +2,047 people
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi
- + 0.41 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,509 / sq mi
- State median 2,498
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Sweetwater population, 2020 to 2024
Sweetwater added 2,047 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.6%. In the latest year it moved by +303. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 50th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Sweetwater is 97% of it.
Sweetwater covers 3.87 square miles of land and 0.41 of water, for 5,509 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Sweetwater is denser than the typical town.
What county Sweetwater is in
All of Sweetwater's residents live in Miami-Dade County, which had 2,838,461 residents in 2024. Sweetwater holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Sweetwater
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Sweetwater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33172, 33174. 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 Sweetwater is
The Census internal point of Sweetwater is at 25.784400, -80.387000. Tallahassee, the capital, is 399.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Doral, FL (83,625 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Hialeah, FL, 7.9 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 25.784400, -80.387000
- DMS
- 25°47'3.84"N 80°23'13.20"W
- UTM
- 17N 561459.9E 2851950.9N
- Geohash
- dhwfdtzvp
- Plus code
- 76QXQJM7+Q6
Daylight in Sweetwater
At 25.78° N, Sweetwater gets about 13 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Sweetwater
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Doral, 2.8 miles away, with 83,625 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Sweetwater, FL?
21,321 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 2,047 (10.6%) from 19,274 in July 2020.
What county is Sweetwater in?
Miami-Dade County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Sweetwater?
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 33172, 33174.
How far is Sweetwater from Tallahassee?
399.5 miles (643.0 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Sweetwater.
What is the nearest larger city to Sweetwater?
Doral, FL, with 83,625 residents, 2.9 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.