Horseheads, New York

Horseheads population, 2020 to 2024

Horseheads lost 249 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.8%. In the latest year it moved by -24. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 166th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Horseheads is 61% of it.

Horseheads covers 3.89 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,631 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Horseheads is less dense than the typical town.

What county Horseheads is in

All of Horseheads's residents live in Chemung County, which had 81,115 residents in 2024. Horseheads holds 7.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Horseheads

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Horseheads by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 14845. 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 Horseheads is

The Census internal point of Horseheads is at 42.168600, -76.829700. Albany, the capital, is 160.3 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Elmira, NY (26,255 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Syracuse, NY, 69.7 miles away.

Daylight in Horseheads

At 42.17° N, Horseheads gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Horseheads

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Elmira Heights, 2.9 miles away, with 3,764 people.