New York · Census place 3615297

Chester, New York

Chester is a village in Orange County, New York with an estimated 4,008 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 194th largest of 419 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,008
#194 of 419 in New York
Change since 2020
-1.7%
-69 people
Land area
2.2 sq mi
Density
1,864 / sq mi
State median 3,760
Orange pin: Chester. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Albany.

Chester population, 2020 to 2024

Chester lost 69 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +0.

4,07720204,07720214,03220224,00820234,0082024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,088. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Chester covers 2.15 square miles of land, for 1,864 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Chester is less dense than the typical town.

What county Chester is in

All of Chester's residents live in Orange County, which had 411,767 residents in 2024. Chester holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chester

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chester by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 10918. 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 Chester is

The Census internal point of Chester is at 41.356900, -74.276900. Albany, the capital, is 93.4 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Goshen, NY (5,760 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 31.1 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.356900, -74.276900
DMS
41°21'24.84"N 74°16'36.84"W
UTM
18N 560484.8E 4578629.8N
Geohash
dr75mbc1q
Plus code
87H79P4F+Q6

Daylight in Chester

At 41.36° N, Chester gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chester

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Goshen, 4.0 miles away, with 5,760 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Chester, NY?

4,008 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 69 (1.7%) from 4,077 in July 2020.

What county is Chester in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Chester?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 10918.

How far is Chester from Albany?

93.4 miles (150.4 km) in a straight line, heading NNE from Chester.

What is the nearest larger city to Chester?

Goshen, NY, with 5,760 residents, 4.0 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.