The second-order Stark effect for a planar Dirac one-electron atom in the ground state is analyzed within the framework of the Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory, with the use of the Sturmian series expansion of the generalized Dirac-Coulomb Green function. A closedform analytical expression for the static dipole polarizability of that system is found. The formula involves a generalized hypergeometric function 3F2 with the unit argument. Numerical values of the polarizabilities for relativistic planar hydrogenic atoms with atomic numbers 1 Z 68 are provided in a tabular form. A simple formula for the polarizability of a nonrelativistic two-dimensional hydrogenic atom, reported previously by several other authors, is recovered from our result in the nonrelativistic limit.