page_title: Tallahassee, Florida
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Tallahassee, Florida / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: Property of user. Photos of StarMetro fleet gratefully provided on December 29, 2006 by: Charles Whaley, Supervisor of Equipment Services, City of Tallahassee StarMetro, 555 Appleyard Drive, Tallahassee, Florida, 32304. Office (850) 891-5564.
context_page_description: Tallahassee is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2019, the population was 194,500, making it the 7th-largest city in the U.S state of Florida, and the 126th-largest city in the United States. The population of the Tallahassee metropolitan area was 385,145 as of 2018. Tallahassee is the largest city in the Florida Big Bend and Florida Panhandle region, and the main center for trade and agriculture in the Florida Big Bend and Southwest Georgia regions.
  Tallahassee is home to Florida State University, ranked the nation's eighteenth best public university by U.S. News & World Report. It is also home to Florida A&M University, the fifth-largest historically black university by total enrollment. Tallahassee Community College is a large state college that serves mainly as a feeder school to Florida State and Florida A&M. Tallahassee qualifies as a significant college town, with a student population exceeding 70,000.
caption: A StarMetro vehicle
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