Florida’s population was estimated at 23,462,518 on July 1, 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Florida. The state’s population estimate was 23,372,215 on July 1, 2024. Compared with the April 1, 2020 estimate base, Florida’s population had grown 8.9% by July 1, 2025.
Florida population statistics at a glance
- 2025 population estimate: 23,462,518 on July 1, 2025
- 2024 population estimate: 23,372,215 on July 1, 2024
- 2020 Census population: 21,538,187 on April 1, 2020
- 2010 Census population: 18,801,310 on April 1, 2010
- Growth from April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025: 8.9%
- Households: 8,752,810 in the 2020–2024 estimate period
- Average household size: 2.51 persons in the 2020–2024 estimate period
Contents
- Recent population growth
- Age, sex, race, and ethnicity
- Migration, households, and housing
- Education, language, technology, and health
- Work, income, poverty, and commuting
- Florida’s business and consumer economy
Recent population growth
Florida’s population estimate increased from 23,372,215 on July 1, 2024, to 23,462,518 on July 1, 2025. These are annual estimates, so they should be read as dated population measures rather than as a timeless current count. The Census Bureau’s QuickFacts page identifies both figures as estimates for the state of Florida.
The 2025 estimate uses an April 1, 2020 population estimate base of 21,538,207 in the V2025 series. On that basis, Florida’s population grew 8.9% from April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025. The V2024 series lists a slightly different April 1, 2020 estimate base of 21,538,192 and reports 8.5% growth through July 1, 2024. The two bases differ by 15 people because they belong to different estimate vintages.
The official April 1, 2020 Census population was 21,538,187. The April 1, 2010 Census population was 18,801,310. This gives two useful reference points: the decennial Census counts and the later annual estimates. The Census counts are tied to their specific enumeration dates, while the 2024 and 2025 figures are estimates tied to their respective July 1 dates.
| Measure | Florida figure | Measurement date or period |
|---|---|---|
| Population estimate | 23,462,518 | July 1, 2025 |
| Population estimate | 23,372,215 | July 1, 2024 |
| Census population | 21,538,187 | April 1, 2020 |
| Census population | 18,801,310 | April 1, 2010 |
| Growth from 2020 estimate base | 8.9% | April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 |
Age, sex, race, and ethnicity
Florida’s age profile includes both children and a substantial older population. In the QuickFacts measures, 4.9% of residents were under age 5, while 19.3% were under age 18. Residents age 65 or older represented 21.8% of the population. These percentages use different age thresholds, so they describe separate groups rather than additive categories.
Women represented 50.8% of Florida residents. The race measures reported people identifying as White alone at 76.4%, Black or African American alone at 16.9%, American Indian and Alaska Native alone at 0.6%, Asian alone at 3.4%, and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone at 0.1%. The share identifying as two or more races was 2.5%.
Race and Hispanic-or-Latino ethnicity are presented as separate measures in the source. Florida residents identifying as Hispanic or Latino accounted for 28.7%. Residents identifying as White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, accounted for 50.6%. Because the categories use different classification concepts, the percentages should not be combined as though they were a single mutually exclusive list.
The source also reports 1,327,071 veterans for Florida during the 2020–2024 estimate period. Veterans are a population subgroup measured over the same multi-year estimate period as several of the social and economic indicators below.
Migration, households, and housing
Florida had 8,752,810 households in the 2020–2024 estimate period. The average household size was 2.51 persons. These household figures describe household structure, which is different from the total population count because people and households are separate statistical units.
Residential stability was measured by the share of residents age 1 year and older living in the same house one year earlier. Florida’s figure was 86.3% during 2020–2024. The remaining share is not defined here as one single type of move; the supplied measure only identifies whether the resident lived in the same house one year earlier.
Florida had 10,629,918 housing units on July 1, 2024. During the 2020–2024 estimate period, 67.6% of housing units were owner-occupied. The median value of owner-occupied housing units was $359,000. Median selected monthly owner costs were $1,959 for owners with a mortgage and $673 for owners without a mortgage. Median gross rent was $1,669.
In 2024, Florida issued 173,326 building permits. Building permits are an activity measure for the calendar year, while the housing-unit total is a July 1, 2024 stock measure. They should not be treated as the same type of housing count.
Education, language, technology, and health
Among Florida residents age 25 and older, 89.9% were high school graduates or higher during the 2020–2024 estimate period. The share with a bachelor’s degree or higher was 34.1%. These two measures describe educational attainment at different thresholds, with the bachelor’s-degree figure representing a subset of the broader high-school-or-higher measure.
Language use adds another dimension to the state’s population profile. Among residents age 5 and older, 30.6% spoke a language other than English at home during 2020–2024. This measure concerns language spoken at home, not a claim that residents could not speak English.
Technology access was widespread in the same estimate period. Some 96.6% of Florida households had a computer, and 91.6% had a broadband Internet subscription. The two percentages measure related but distinct household characteristics: having a computer does not necessarily mean having a broadband subscription, and a broadband subscription is not defined here by a particular connection type.
Health-related measures show that 8.9% of Florida residents under age 65 had a disability during 2020–2024. In the same age range, 13.6% were without health insurance. Both statistics are restricted to residents under age 65, so they should not be read as percentages of the full state population.
Work, income, poverty, and commuting
Florida’s civilian labor force participation measure was 59.3% among residents age 16 and older during the 2020–2024 estimate period. Among residents age 16 and older in the civilian labor force, 55.2% were female. The second measure describes the sex composition of the civilian labor force, not the percentage of all Florida women who participated.
Median household income was $74,568 during 2020–2024. Per capita income in the past 12 months was $42,609. These are different income measures: median household income describes the midpoint of household incomes, while per capita income divides income across people under the source’s measurement framework.
The poverty rate was 12.0% during 2020–2024. The supplied source does not provide a separate poverty threshold, count, or age breakdown here, so the percentage is best used as the statewide indicator reported for that estimate period.
Mean travel time to work was 28.0 minutes during 2020–2024. This is an average travel-time measure for workers covered by the source, not a statement that every Florida resident commuted or that every commute lasted the same amount of time.
Florida’s business and consumer economy
The QuickFacts economic measures use 2022 receipts, revenue, or sales depending on the sector. Florida’s total retail sales were $484,218,148,000 in 2022, and retail sales per capita were $21,767. The per-capita measure provides a population-scaled view of the retail total, but the supplied figures should be retained as reported rather than recomputed.
Health care and social assistance receipts and revenue totaled $211,744,080,000 in 2022. Transportation and warehousing receipts and revenue totaled $98,048,310,000. Accommodation and food services sales totaled $94,559,362,000.
| 2022 sector measure | Florida total |
|---|---|
| Retail sales | $484,218,148,000 |
| Health care and social assistance receipts and revenue | $211,744,080,000 |
| Transportation and warehousing receipts and revenue | $98,048,310,000 |
| Accommodation and food services sales | $94,559,362,000 |
| Retail sales per capita | $21,767 |
These figures cover different business categories and use the source’s own labels. Retail sales are not the same measure as receipts and revenue in health care, social assistance, transportation, or warehousing. Accommodation and food services is likewise reported as sales. Keeping the labels intact helps avoid treating unlike sector measures as directly interchangeable.