Lake Hamilton, Florida

Lake Hamilton population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Hamilton added 574 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +37.0%. In the latest year it moved by +471.

Lake Hamilton covers 3.12 square miles of land and 0.98 of water, for 681 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Lake Hamilton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake Hamilton is in

All of Lake Hamilton's residents live in Polk County, which had 852,878 residents in 2024. Lake Hamilton holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Hamilton

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lake Hamilton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 33838, 33844, 33851. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Lake Hamilton is

The Census internal point of Lake Hamilton is at 28.049200, -81.626800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 229.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dundee, FL (6,275 people), 2.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lakeland, FL, 20.0 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Hamilton

At 28.05° N, Lake Hamilton gets about 13 h 55 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 Lake Hamilton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Dundee, 2.6 miles away, with 6,275 people.