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About 23.4 million. The Florida Legislature, using the University of Florida's estimates, counted 23,379,261 people on April 1, 2025, up from 21,538,187 in the 2020 Census.
The U.S. Census Bureau's own estimate for July 1, 2025 is 23,462,518, up 8.9 percent since 2020.
The largest cities on April 1, 2025: Jacksonville, 1,032,601; Miami, 478,799; Tampa, 412,684; Orlando, 340,681; and Tallahassee, the capital, 205,623. Jacksonville counts as the largest because the city and Duval County are one government. Miami-Dade is the county with the most people.
By the Census Bureau's latest five-year figures, six Florida counties have more than a million residents: Miami-Dade, the largest by far with more than 2.7 million, then Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Orange and Duval.
Read the answer →Florida has 67 counties. The largest by population is Miami-Dade, with more than 2.7 million residents; the smallest is Liberty, in the Panhandle, with fewer than 8,000.
Read the answer →Nine of Florida's 67 counties have fewer than 16,000 residents, and all but one are in North Florida, the Panhandle and the Big Bend; the exception is Glades, on the west side of Lake Okeechobee.
Read the answer →Every Florida county, grouped into regions, with its population, typical home sale price, median household income and share of residents 65 and older, each linked to its full county guide.
Open the page →On March 3, 1845, as the 27th state. Spain founded St. Augustine in 1565, the first permanent European settlement in Florida, and the United States acquired Florida from Spain as a territory in 1821.
Florida covers 65,758 square miles, 22nd among the 50 states: 53,625 square miles of land and 12,133 of water.
The tallest tower in Florida is now Cipriani Residences Miami, in Brickell, which reached its full height of 950 feet in July 2026; its first owners are expected to move in in the summer of 2027.
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