Florida Urban Counties

[Keith Broaders]

Florida Urban Counties

Nearly half of the people of Florida live the seven of the 67 counties with the largest populations and control  the state  legislature, Miami-Dade County has 16 representatives and 6 state senators and the 34 rural counties have

Rank	County	Population
1	Miami-Dade County	2,688,237
2	Broward County	1,940,907
3	Palm Beach County	1,494,805
4	Hillsborough County	1,468,560
5	Orange County	1,427,403
6	Duval County	995,708
7	Pinellas County	959,918
8	Lee County	772,902
9	Polk County	736,229
10	Brevard County	610,723
11	Pasco County	569,211
12	Volusia County	558,520
13	Seminole County	471,321
14	Sarasota County	439,392
15	Manatee County	405,069
16	Osceola County	393,745
17	Lake County	386,829
18	Collier County	380,221
19	Marion County	378,225
20	St. Lucie County	334,682
21	Escambia County	321,296
22	Leon County	294,128
23	Alachua County	279,729
24	St. Johns County	278,722
25	Clay County	219,650
26	Okaloosa County	212,021
27	Hernando County	196,621
28	Charlotte County	189,900
29	Santa Rosa County	188,994
30	Bay County	181,055
31	Indian River County	160,986
32	Martin County	159,399
33	Citrus County Sumter County	155,173 131,382