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Lakeland, FL - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Lakeland  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Lakeland Home page. The Lakeland Home page provides as much information as possible on Lakeland. Knowing Lakeland’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lakeland’s Home page, you will also find Lakeland’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Lakeland has a population of 300268. 48.2% of Lakeland’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.8 are female. 41.5% of Lakeland is married and 54.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $152,607, and the average rent is $1,056. Household median income in Lakeland is $50,136, and the individual median income is $27,337. Lakeland’s Ethnic is the following: White(70.9%), Black(19.4%), Hispanic(16.3%), Multiple(4%), Other(3.3%), Asian(2%), Native(0.4%), Pacific(0.1%).


Lakeland is the most populous city in Polk County, Florida, part of the Tampa Bay Area, located along Interstate 4 east of Tampa. According to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau release, the city had a population of 112,641. Lakeland is a principal city of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area. European-American settlers arrived in Lakeland from Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina in the 1870s.


The city expanded in the 1880s with the arrival of rail service, with the first freedmen railway workers settling here in 1883. They and European immigrants also came because of land development opportunities with farming, citrus, cattle and phosphate industry developing. Lakeland is home to the 1,267-acre Circle B Bar Reserve.


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