Population & Demographics
Fort Myers, FL
Fort Myers is home to 95,051 people. Explore its demographics, housing, and economy — plus how its 37,087 resident workers commute each day.
95,051 residents
Median age 41.3 · U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year (2024).
Fort Myers population & demographics
Who lives in Fort Myers — population, age, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.
Race & ethnicity in Fort Myers
How Fort Myers breaks down by race and ethnicity — each bar is that group’s share of the population, from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year (2024).
Race across Fort Myers
Each dot is a group of people, placed in their 2020 Census block and colored by race or ethnicity — the pattern shows where groups live across Fort Myers.
These figures are for Fort Myers proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.
How Fort Myers commutes
Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.
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How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.
Fort Myers
37,087 commutes, one dot at a time
Fort Myers
Where 37,087 workers commute
Where residents work
Top destinations for people who live in Fort Myers, by worker count.
Who commutes in
Top origin places for workers who travel into Fort Myers.
Top industries
The sectors that employ Fort Myers’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.
Internet options for Fort Myers
The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.
FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).