#1Eagle Lake
Polk County3,016 in 2020·6,415 in 2025·+3,399 people
Eagle Lake, #1 on this list · Photo: CKColerEL · CC BY 3.0Florida rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in Florida
Eagle Lake has grown fastest of Florida’s 272 towns of 2,500+: up 112.7% from 3,016 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 6,415 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +4.1%; 42 of the 272 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+112.7%
#2Davenport
Polk County9,297 in 2020·18,110 in 2025·+8,813 people
#3Haines City
Polk County27,466 in 2020·45,973 in 2025·+18,507 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in Florida?
Eagle Lake (Polk County): it grew 112.7%, from 3,016 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 6,415 in July 2025. Davenport (+94.8%) and Haines City (+67.4%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (272 in Florida). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Florida page.
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