Polk City, Florida

Polk City population, 2020 to 2024

Polk City added 304 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.0%. In the latest year it moved by +21.

Polk City covers 4.51 square miles of land and 0.58 of water, for 682 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Polk City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Polk City is in

All of Polk City's residents live in Polk County, which had 852,878 residents in 2024. Polk City holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Polk City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Polk City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 33868. 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 Polk City is

The Census internal point of Polk City is at 28.180500, -81.830000. Tallahassee, the capital, is 214.8 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, 11.5 miles away.

Daylight in Polk City

At 28.18° N, Polk City 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 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Polk City

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.