Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee population, 2020 to 2024

Tallahassee added 7,155 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +1,424. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 145th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Tallahassee is 9.3 times that size.

Tallahassee covers 102.57 square miles of land and 2.91 of water, for 2,000 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Tallahassee is less dense than the typical town.

What county Tallahassee is in

All of Tallahassee's residents live in Leon County, which had 300,488 residents in 2024. Tallahassee holds 68.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tallahassee

12 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Tallahassee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32301, 32303, 32304, 32306, 32307, 32308, 32309, 32310, 32311, 32312, 32313, 32399. 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 Tallahassee is

The Census internal point of Tallahassee is at 30.453500, -84.252300. Tallahassee, the capital, is 2.0 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jacksonville, FL (1,009,833 people), 154.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Gainesville, FL, 125.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 47 m (154 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Tallahassee

At 30.45° N, Tallahassee gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 56 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 Tallahassee daylight page.

Places near Tallahassee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Midway, 12.9 miles away, with 3,485 people.