Alden, New York

Alden population, 2020 to 2024

Alden added 162 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.2%. In the latest year it moved by +165.

Alden covers 2.72 square miles of land, for 1,016 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Alden is less dense than the typical town.

What county Alden is in

All of Alden's residents live in Erie County, which had 950,602 residents in 2024. Alden holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Alden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 14004. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Alden is

The Census internal point of Alden is at 42.898900, -78.494600. Albany, the capital, is 240.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Akron, NY (2,886 people), 8.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Buffalo, NY, 18.5 miles away.

Daylight in Alden

At 42.90° N, Alden gets about 15 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Akron, 8.2 miles away, with 2,886 people.