Babylon, New York

Babylon population, 2020 to 2024

Babylon added 25 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +44. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 64th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Babylon is 1.2 times that size.

Babylon covers 2.41 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 5,059 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Babylon is denser than the typical town.

What county Babylon is in

All of Babylon's residents live in Suffolk County, which had 1,535,909 residents in 2024. Babylon holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Babylon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Babylon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 11702. 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 Babylon is

The Census internal point of Babylon is at 40.693700, -73.326000. Albany, the capital, is 137.2 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lindenhurst, NY (27,160 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Stamford, CT, 29.0 miles away.

Daylight in Babylon

At 40.69° N, Babylon gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Babylon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Lindenhurst, 2.5 miles away, with 27,160 people.