Tavares, Florida

Tavares population, 2020 to 2024

Tavares added 2,988 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +15.7%. In the latest year it moved by +839. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 33rd; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Tavares is 1.0 times that size.

Tavares covers 12.34 square miles of land and 1.58 of water, for 1,783 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Tavares is less dense than the typical town.

What county Tavares is in

All of Tavares's residents live in Lake County, which had 444,204 residents in 2024. Tavares holds 5.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tavares

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Tavares by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32778. 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 Tavares is

The Census internal point of Tavares is at 28.765900, -81.756400. Tallahassee, the capital, is 190.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Eustis, FL (25,067 people), 8.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Deltona, FL, 34.4 miles away.

Daylight in Tavares

At 28.77° N, Tavares gets about 13 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Tavares

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Astatula, 4.3 miles away, with 2,266 people.