New York · Census place 3611000
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is a city in Erie County, New York with an estimated 276,617 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 2nd largest of 419 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 276,617
- #2 of 419 in New York
- Change since 2020
- -0.3%
- -941 people
- Land area
- 40.4 sq mi
- + 12.10 sq mi water
- Density
- 6,850 / sq mi
- State median 3,760
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Buffalo population, 2020 to 2024
Buffalo lost 941 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +241. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 78th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Buffalo is 26.8 times that size.
Buffalo covers 40.38 square miles of land and 12.10 of water, for 6,850 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Buffalo is denser than the typical town.
What county Buffalo is in
All of Buffalo's residents live in Erie County, which had 950,602 residents in 2024. Buffalo holds 29.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Buffalo
17 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Buffalo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 14201, 14202, 14203, 14204, 14206, 14207, 14208, 14209, 14210, 14211, 14212, 14213, 14214, 14215, 14216, 14220, 14222. 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 Buffalo is
The Census internal point of Buffalo is at 42.892500, -78.859700. Albany, the capital, is 259.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cleveland, OH (365,379 people), 174.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rochester, NY, 65.6 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 188 m (617 ft) above sea level.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 42.892500, -78.859700
- DMS
- 42°53'33.00"N 78°51'34.92"W
- UTM
- 17N 674759.2E 4751099.4N
- Geohash
- dpxuj824g
- Plus code
- 87J3V4RR+X4
- Time zone
- America/New_York
Daylight in Buffalo
At 42.89° N, Buffalo 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 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Buffalo daylight page.
Places near Buffalo
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Sloan, 3.5 miles away, with 3,730 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Buffalo, NY?
276,617 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 941 (0.3%) from 277,558 in July 2020.
What county is Buffalo in?
Erie County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Buffalo?
17 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 14201, 14202, 14203, 14204, 14206, 14207, 14208, 14209, 14210, 14211, 14212, 14213, and more.
How far is Buffalo from Albany?
259.3 miles (417.3 km) in a straight line, heading E from Buffalo.
What is the nearest larger city to Buffalo?
Cleveland, OH, with 365,379 residents, 174.3 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)
- 05Open-Meteo forecast API (time zone and Copernicus GLO-90 elevation) (last verified 2026-09-30)
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