New York · Census place 3634495

Highland Falls, New York

Highland Falls is a village in Orange County, New York with an estimated 3,648 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 207th largest of 419 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,648
#207 of 419 in New York
Change since 2020
-1.8%
-67 people
Land area
1.1 sq mi
Density
3,347 / sq mi
State median 3,760
Orange pin: Highland Falls. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Albany.

Highland Falls population, 2020 to 2024

Highland Falls lost 67 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by -10.

3,71520203,71720213,68020223,65820233,6482024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,727. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Highland Falls covers 1.09 square miles of land, for 3,347 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Highland Falls is less dense than the typical town.

What county Highland Falls is in

All of Highland Falls's residents live in Orange County, which had 411,767 residents in 2024. Highland Falls holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Highland Falls

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Highland Falls by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 10928. 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 Highland Falls is

The Census internal point of Highland Falls is at 41.364600, -73.968900. Albany, the capital, is 89.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Peekskill, NY (25,757 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Yonkers, NY, 29.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.364600, -73.968900
DMS
41°21'52.56"N 73°58'8.04"W
UTM
18N 586238.1E 4579745.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
87H8927J+RC

Daylight in Highland Falls

At 41.36° N, Highland Falls gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Highland Falls

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Cold Spring, 3.8 miles away, with 1,995 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Highland Falls, NY?

3,648 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 67 (1.8%) from 3,715 in July 2020.

What county is Highland Falls in?

Orange County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Highland Falls?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 10928.

How far is Highland Falls from Albany?

89.7 miles (144.3 km) in a straight line, heading N from Highland Falls.

What is the nearest larger city to Highland Falls?

Peekskill, NY, with 25,757 residents, 5.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.