New York · Census place 3608323
Brightwaters, New York
Brightwaters is a village in Suffolk County, New York with an estimated 3,187 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 225th largest of 419 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 3,187
- #225 of 419 in New York
- Change since 2020
- +0.2%
- +5 people
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- + 0.02 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,286 / sq mi
- State median 3,760
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Brightwaters population, 2020 to 2024
Brightwaters added 5 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +6.
Brightwaters covers 0.97 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 3,286 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Brightwaters is less dense than the typical town.
What county Brightwaters is in
All of Brightwaters's residents live in Suffolk County, which had 1,535,909 residents in 2024. Brightwaters holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Brightwaters
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brightwaters by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 11718. 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 Brightwaters is
The Census internal point of Brightwaters is at 40.716400, -73.261500. Albany, the capital, is 136.2 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Babylon, NY (12,193 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Stamford, CT, 29.1 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 40.716400, -73.261500
- DMS
- 40°42'59.04"N 73°15'41.40"W
- UTM
- 18N 646838.8E 4508729.0N
- Geohash
- dr5zsuhw5
- Plus code
- 87G8PP8Q+H9
Daylight in Brightwaters
At 40.72° N, Brightwaters 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 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Brightwaters
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Babylon, 3.7 miles away, with 12,193 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Brightwaters, NY?
3,187 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 5 (0.2%) from 3,182 in July 2020.
What county is Brightwaters in?
Suffolk County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Brightwaters?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 11718.
How far is Brightwaters from Albany?
136.2 miles (219.2 km) in a straight line, heading N from Brightwaters.
What is the nearest larger city to Brightwaters?
Babylon, NY, with 12,193 residents, 3.7 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.