Alfred, New York

Alfred population, 2020 to 2024

Alfred added 429 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.5%. In the latest year it moved by -3. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Alfred is 53% of it.

Alfred covers 1.19 square miles of land, for 4,597 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Alfred is denser than the typical town.

What county Alfred is in

All of Alfred's residents live in Allegany County, which had 47,299 residents in 2024. Alfred holds 11.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alfred

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Alfred by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 14802. 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 Alfred is

The Census internal point of Alfred is at 42.254300, -77.789600. Albany, the capital, is 207.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hornell, NY (8,078 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rochester, NY, 63.9 miles away.

Daylight in Alfred

At 42.25° N, Alfred gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alfred

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Hornell, 8.4 miles away, with 8,078 people.