Auburndale, Florida

Auburndale population, 2020 to 2024

Auburndale added 4,917 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +31.2%. In the latest year it moved by +518. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Auburndale is 94% of it.

Auburndale covers 13.56 square miles of land and 7.02 of water, for 1,524 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Auburndale is less dense than the typical town.

What county Auburndale is in

All of Auburndale's residents live in Polk County, which had 852,878 residents in 2024. Auburndale holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Auburndale

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Auburndale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33823, 33868. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Auburndale is

The Census internal point of Auburndale is at 28.110000, -81.797300. Tallahassee, the capital, is 219.7 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Winter Haven, FL (59,975 people), 5.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lakeland, FL, 10.3 miles away.

Daylight in Auburndale

At 28.11° N, Auburndale gets about 13 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Auburndale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Lake Alfred, 5.3 miles away, with 8,632 people.