Palokka is a district of Jyväskylä and the largest area by population in the Palokka-Puuppola ward.

More commonly Palokka refers to the urbanized area and does not include the settlements on its outskirts, such as Saarenmaa.

[4] Administratively Palokka and Jyväskylä were parts of Saarioinen, but ecclesiastically altering between Jämsä or, since 1561, Rautalampi and its chapel community of Laukaa.

John III, king of Sweden, gave a sentence to Pietari, who had to give the pastures back to Palokka and Jyväskylä.

[7] As Laukaa became an independent parish in 1627, Palokka and the other villages of the Jyväskylä area were transferred to it, which became permanent in 1646.

[6] Palokka was fairly small until the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when new farms were established due to the great partition, among them Hytölä, Ollila and Koskela.

[4] After the Continuation War, people from the ceded Sortavalan maalaiskunta (a municipality surrounding the town of Sortavala, now a part of Russia) were relocated to Central Finland, some of them to Palokka.