Florida currently has a little over 23 million residents, using the latest official state and federal estimates from 2024–2025.

Latest population estimate

  • The U.S. Census Bureau and Federal Reserve data put Florida’s resident population at about 23.37 million people as of early/mid‑2024.
  • Florida’s own Demographic Estimating Conference reports a final resident population of 23,379,261 as of April 1, 2025.
  • In plain terms, that means “about 23.4 million people live in Florida” right now, with the number still slowly rising.

How fast it’s growing

  • From 2023 to 2024, Florida added roughly 450,000–470,000 new residents , one of the largest increases of any U.S. state.
  • State economists expect growth to continue but gradually slow , averaging around 300,000 additional residents per year over the next few years.

So if you’re just looking for a quick scoop: around 23.4 million people live in Florida, and that number is still climbing each year.

Information gathered from public data and internet sources and portrayed here.