Garden City, New York

Garden City population, 2020 to 2024

Garden City added 211 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +20. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 44th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Garden City is 2.2 times that size.

Garden City covers 5.33 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 4,314 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Garden City is denser than the typical town.

What county Garden City is in

All of Garden City's residents live in Nassau County, which had 1,392,438 residents in 2024. Garden City holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Garden City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Garden City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 11530. 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 Garden City is

The Census internal point of Garden City is at 40.725800, -73.645400. Albany, the capital, is 133.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hempstead, NY (59,569 people), 2.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 16.0 miles away.

Daylight in Garden City

At 40.73° N, Garden City gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Garden City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Mineola, 1.5 miles away, with 21,305 people.