Tampa, Florida

Tampa population, 2020 to 2024

Tampa added 25,983 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.7%. In the latest year it moved by +4,805. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 88th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Tampa is 18.9 times that size.

Tampa covers 114.49 square miles of land and 63.58 of water, for 3,621 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Tampa is denser than the typical town.

What county Tampa is in

All of Tampa's residents live in Hillsborough County, which had 1,581,426 residents in 2024. Tampa holds 26.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tampa

20 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Tampa by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33602, 33603, 33604, 33605, 33606, 33607, 33609, 33610, 33611, 33612, 33613, 33614, 33616, 33617, 33619, 33620, 33621, 33629, 33637, 33647. 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 Tampa is

The Census internal point of Tampa is at 27.970100, -82.479700. Tallahassee, the capital, is 202.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jacksonville, FL (1,009,833 people), 170.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Petersburg, FL, 17.5 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Tampa

At 27.97° N, Tampa gets about 13 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 33 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 Tampa daylight page.

Places near Tampa

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Temple Terrace, 8.1 miles away, with 27,588 people.