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Manatee County, Florida

A county in Florida, ranked 16 of 67 by population.

CountyFIPS 12081

Within Florida
Manatee County, highlighted, with the areas around it. Boundaries generalised from the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file; neighbour fills carry no data. The dot marks Bradenton, the county seat, located via the 2025 Census Gazetteer.

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Population
468,200
+66,578 (+16.6%) since 2020
Land area
742.8
square miles. A further 23.0% of the total area is water
Population density
630
people per square mile, computed rather than published
County seat
Bradenton
Seat of county government.
Established
1855
170 years ago
Largest city
Bradenton city
Population 58,014.

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; Wikidata (CC0), Wikidata. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

Satellite view

Aerial imagery of Manatee County with its boundary drawn on top. A map shows you the shape; this shows you what is inside it, and which side of the line a place falls on.

Aerial view of Manatee County, Florida from the USGS National Map, with its boundary outlined
Imagery: USGS National Map, USGS Imagery Only, public domain, requested from USGS by your browser when you reach this point on the page, at 800 by 597 pixels. The boundary is the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file, reprojected to Web Mercator to match the imagery. You can also open the USGS National Map viewer.

Where Manatee County ranks

Position among the 67 counties of Florida, and among all 3,144 US counties and county-equivalents. Computed from the figures on this page.

MeasureValueIn FloridaNationally
Population468,20016th of 67158th of 3,144
Land area742.8 sq mi31st of 671,187th of 3,144
Population density630 per sq mi14th of 67229th of 3,144
Median household income$78,45718th of 67649th of 3,143

Full data for Manatee County

Every figure below is attributed to the Census Bureau product it came from, with the vintage of that product.
MeasureValueSource and vintage
Population468,200Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Population in 2020401,622Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
2020 estimates base?399,711Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Land area742.8 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Water area221.3 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Total area964 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Population density?630 per sq miComputed: Vintage 2025 estimates divided by 2025 Gazetteer land area
Median household income$78,457American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median home value$391,400American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median age49.6American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Households176,747American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Housing units221,234American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, released 29 January 2026. Population density is computed here, not published: it divides the Vintage 2025 population estimate by the 2025 Gazetteer land area, which are two different Census products. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

How the population changed

The Census Bureau publishes the components behind an estimate, not just the total. For the year to July 2025:

Births minus deaths
-899
4,026 births, 4,925 deaths
Net migration
+10,211
More people moved in than moved out.

Source: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

The 5 areas bordering Manatee County

Ordered by the length of the border actually shared, which the Census Bureau publishes in its county adjacency file and which no other county reference presents.

Bordering areaStateShared borderPopulation
Sarasota CountyFlorida61 mi479,958
Hillsborough CountyFlorida55 mi1,574,115
Hardee CountyFlorida21 mi25,932
DeSoto CountyFlorida9.0 mi37,078
Polk CountyFloridaa single point874,790

Source: US Census Bureau, County Adjacency File, 2025 County Adjacency File, released 15 September 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

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Data on this page last rebuilt 30 August 2026. How these figures are produced.