Palatka, Florida

Palatka population, 2020 to 2024

Palatka added 395 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.8%. In the latest year it moved by +117. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 140th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Palatka is 49% of it.

Palatka covers 9.85 square miles of land, for 1,103 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Palatka is less dense than the typical town.

What county Palatka is in

All of Palatka's residents live in Putnam County, which had 77,301 residents in 2024. Palatka holds 14.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palatka

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Palatka by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 32177. 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 Palatka is

The Census internal point of Palatka is at 29.644900, -81.676700. Tallahassee, the capital, is 165.1 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Palm Coast, FL (106,729 people), 27.2 miles away.

Daylight in Palatka

At 29.64° N, Palatka gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Palatka

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Interlachen, 13.2 miles away, with 1,508 people.