Florida Population

State demographers estimate Florida’s population will surpass 22 million residents as soon as 2022.Forecasts released earlier this month by the…

It wasn’t so long ago that Florida was trying catch New York. Now -- at least in the population game -- it has left New York in the dust. The U.S....

Looking from atop the ridge at U.S. Highway 27 as it follows the sandy central spine of the state, you can see brand-new red roofs roll in waves down the…

A new estimate shows Florida's population grew by almost 11 percent in the past eight years.The estimate released this week by the University of Florida's…

In 2011, Florida made sweeping changes to the laws regulating new development. Now legislators are re-examining how the state is juggling the needs of a...

Florida’s population along the coast has boomed in the eleven years since the last hurricane hit. That combined with miles of construction on major…

Florida had the second-biggest population gain of any state in the nation in the past year.New figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau shows…

Earlier this year, PolitiFact Florida gave a "mostly false" grade to Senator Bill Nelson's claim that Florida had passed New York to become the nation's…

U.S. Senator Bill Nelson wants Florida to be ready if and when a hurricane strikes.That's why during a recent Senate Armed Services committee hearing,…