Beacon, New York

Beacon population, 2020 to 2024

Beacon added 969 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.8%. In the latest year it moved by +219. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Beacon is 1.5 times that size.

Beacon covers 4.74 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 3,226 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Beacon is less dense than the typical town.

What county Beacon is in

All of Beacon's residents live in Dutchess County, which had 299,963 residents in 2024. Beacon holds 5.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Beacon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Beacon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 12508. 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 Beacon is

The Census internal point of Beacon is at 41.503200, -73.964700. Albany, the capital, is 80.2 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Newburgh, NY (28,181 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Stamford, CT, 36.5 miles away.

Daylight in Beacon

At 41.50° N, Beacon gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Beacon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Newburgh, 2.8 miles away, with 28,181 people.