Lake Alfred, Florida

Lake Alfred population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Alfred added 2,093 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +32.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1,212. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Lake Alfred is 39% of it.

Lake Alfred covers 21.00 square miles of land and 4.09 of water, for 411 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Lake Alfred is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake Alfred is in

All of Lake Alfred's residents live in Polk County, which had 852,878 residents in 2024. Lake Alfred holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Alfred

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Alfred by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33850. 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 Lake Alfred is

The Census internal point of Lake Alfred is at 28.137200, -81.716800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 221.7 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Auburndale, FL (20,659 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lakeland, FL, 15.6 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Alfred

At 28.14° N, Lake Alfred gets about 13 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 21 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 Lake Alfred

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Auburndale, 5.3 miles away, with 20,659 people.