Lake Helen, Florida

Lake Helen population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Helen added 146 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.1%. In the latest year it moved by +16.

Lake Helen covers 4.55 square miles of land and 0.17 of water, for 657 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Lake Helen is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake Helen is in

All of Lake Helen's residents live in Volusia County, which had 602,772 residents in 2024. Lake Helen holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Helen

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Helen by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32744. 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 Helen is

The Census internal point of Lake Helen is at 28.983900, -81.231100. Tallahassee, the capital, is 208.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is DeLand, FL (45,587 people), 4.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Deltona, FL, 5.6 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Helen

At 28.98° N, Lake Helen gets about 14 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Helen

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is DeLand, 4.3 miles away, with 45,587 people.