Albany, New York

Albany population, 2020 to 2024

Albany added 2,708 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +20. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Albany is 9.8 times that size.

Albany covers 21.40 square miles of land and 0.53 of water, for 4,734 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Albany is denser than the typical town.

What county Albany is in

All of Albany's residents live in Albany County, which had 319,964 residents in 2024. Albany holds 31.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Albany

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Albany by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 12202, 12203, 12204, 12205, 12206, 12207, 12208, 12209, 12210, 12222, 12226. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Albany is

The Census internal point of Albany is at 42.665700, -73.798400. Albany, the capital, is 2.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Springfield, MA (154,888 people), 74.6 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 76 m (249 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Albany

At 42.67° N, Albany gets about 15 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Albany daylight page.

Places near Albany

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Rensselaer, 3.6 miles away, with 9,453 people.