Cortland, New York

Cortland population, 2020 to 2024

Cortland lost 57 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +36. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 77th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Cortland is 1.7 times that size.

Cortland covers 3.89 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 4,488 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Cortland is denser than the typical town.

What county Cortland is in

All of Cortland's residents live in Cortland County, which had 45,945 residents in 2024. Cortland holds 38.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cortland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cortland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 13045. 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 Cortland is

The Census internal point of Cortland is at 42.600900, -76.179100. Albany, the capital, is 123.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ithaca, NY (33,768 people), 19.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Syracuse, NY, 30.4 miles away.

Daylight in Cortland

At 42.60° N, Cortland gets about 15 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cortland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Homer, 2.5 miles away, with 3,076 people.