Wildwood, Florida

Wildwood population, 2020 to 2024

Wildwood added 3,064 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +19.2%. In the latest year it moved by +373. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 21st; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Wildwood is 87% of it.

Wildwood covers 58.31 square miles of land and 1.10 of water, for 326 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Wildwood is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wildwood is in

All of Wildwood's residents live in Sumter County, which had 154,693 residents in 2024. Wildwood holds 12.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wildwood

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Wildwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32163, 33514, 33585, 34484, 34785. 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 Wildwood is

The Census internal point of Wildwood is at 28.805800, -82.007300. Tallahassee, the capital, is 177.1 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Leesburg, FL (37,815 people), 8.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Deltona, FL, 48.7 miles away.

Daylight in Wildwood

At 28.81° N, Wildwood gets about 13 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wildwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Fruitland Park, 5.2 miles away, with 8,962 people.