Dunkirk, New York

Dunkirk population, 2020 to 2024

Dunkirk lost 352 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.8%. In the latest year it moved by -63. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 156th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Dunkirk is 1.2 times that size.

Dunkirk covers 4.55 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 2,721 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Dunkirk is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dunkirk is in

All of Dunkirk's residents live in Chautauqua County, which had 124,105 residents in 2024. Dunkirk holds 10.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dunkirk

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dunkirk by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 14048. 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 Dunkirk is

The Census internal point of Dunkirk is at 42.480600, -79.332900. Albany, the capital, is 283.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jamestown, NY (27,699 people), 26.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Buffalo, NY, 37.2 miles away.

Daylight in Dunkirk

At 42.48° N, Dunkirk gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dunkirk

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Fredonia, 2.8 miles away, with 9,295 people.