Fort Edward, New York

Fort Edward population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Edward lost 25 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -10.

Fort Edward covers 1.76 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 1,783 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Fort Edward is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fort Edward is in

All of Fort Edward's residents live in Washington County, which had 59,839 residents in 2024. Fort Edward holds 5.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Edward

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Edward by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 12828. 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 Fort Edward is

The Census internal point of Fort Edward is at 43.268600, -73.582600. Albany, the capital, is 43.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hudson Falls, NY (7,359 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 43.1 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Edward

At 43.27° N, Fort Edward gets about 15 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Edward

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Hudson Falls, 2.5 miles away, with 7,359 people.