Cohoes, New York

Cohoes population, 2020 to 2024

Cohoes added 423 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +232. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Cohoes is 1.8 times that size.

Cohoes covers 3.77 square miles of land and 0.46 of water, for 4,915 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Cohoes is denser than the typical town.

What county Cohoes is in

All of Cohoes's residents live in Albany County, which had 319,964 residents in 2024. Cohoes holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cohoes

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cohoes by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 12047. 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 Cohoes is

The Census internal point of Cohoes is at 42.772900, -73.707800. Albany, the capital, is 8.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Troy, NY (51,065 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 8.7 miles away.

Daylight in Cohoes

At 42.77° N, Cohoes gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cohoes

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Green Island, 1.9 miles away, with 2,971 people.