New York · Census place 3608488

Brocton, New York

Brocton is a village in Chautauqua County, New York with an estimated 1,305 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 381st largest of 419 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,305
#381 of 419 in New York
Change since 2020
-2.7%
-36 people
Land area
1.8 sq mi
Density
737 / sq mi
State median 3,760
Orange pin: Brocton. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Albany.

Brocton population, 2020 to 2024

Brocton lost 36 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by -9.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,342. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Brocton covers 1.77 square miles of land, for 737 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Brocton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Brocton is in

All of Brocton's residents live in Chautauqua County, which had 124,105 residents in 2024. Brocton holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brocton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brocton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 14716. 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 Brocton is

The Census internal point of Brocton is at 42.389700, -79.442800. Albany, the capital, is 290.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fredonia, NY (9,295 people), 6.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Buffalo, NY, 45.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
42.389700, -79.442800
DMS
42°23'22.92"N 79°26'34.08"W
UTM
17N 628175.2E 4694220.1N
Geohash
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Plus code
87J29HQ4+VV

Daylight in Brocton

At 42.39° N, Brocton gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brocton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Fredonia, 6.7 miles away, with 9,295 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Brocton, NY?

1,305 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 36 (2.7%) from 1,341 in July 2020.

What county is Brocton in?

Chautauqua County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Brocton?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 14716.

How far is Brocton from Albany?

290.1 miles (466.8 km) in a straight line, heading E from Brocton.

What is the nearest larger city to Brocton?

Fredonia, NY, with 9,295 residents, 6.6 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.