Auburn, New York

Auburn population, 2020 to 2024

Auburn lost 903 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.4%. In the latest year it moved by -53. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 163rd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Auburn is 2.5 times that size.

Auburn covers 8.34 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 3,113 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Auburn is less dense than the typical town.

What county Auburn is in

All of Auburn's residents live in Cayuga County, which had 74,567 residents in 2024. Auburn holds 34.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Auburn

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Auburn by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 13021, 13024. 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 Auburn is

The Census internal point of Auburn is at 42.933800, -76.567200. Albany, the capital, is 143.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Syracuse, NY (146,097 people), 22.7 miles away.

Daylight in Auburn

At 42.93° N, Auburn 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 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Auburn

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Skaneateles, 7.1 miles away, with 2,530 people.