Lakeland, Florida

Lakeland population, 2020 to 2024

Lakeland added 11,109 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.8%. In the latest year it moved by +1,944. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 55th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Lakeland is 5.7 times that size.

Lakeland covers 66.58 square miles of land and 8.77 of water, for 1,877 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Lakeland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lakeland is in

All of Lakeland's residents live in Polk County, which had 852,878 residents in 2024. Lakeland holds 14.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lakeland

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lakeland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33801, 33803, 33805, 33811, 33813, 33815. 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 Lakeland is

The Census internal point of Lakeland is at 28.055500, -81.954800. Tallahassee, the capital, is 216.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tampa, FL (414,547 people), 32.6 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 66 m (217 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Lakeland

At 28.06° N, Lakeland 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. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Lakeland daylight page.

Places near Lakeland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Auburndale, 10.3 miles away, with 20,659 people.