Hudson, New York

Hudson population, 2020 to 2024

Hudson lost 170 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.9%. In the latest year it moved by -71. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 158th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Hudson is 56% of it.

Hudson covers 2.16 square miles of land and 0.17 of water, for 2,655 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Hudson is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hudson is in

All of Hudson's residents live in Columbia County, which had 60,299 residents in 2024. Hudson holds 9.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hudson

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hudson by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 12534. 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 Hudson is

The Census internal point of Hudson is at 42.251900, -73.786000. Albany, the capital, is 27.8 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kingston, NY (23,748 people), 24.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 28.6 miles away.

Daylight in Hudson

At 42.25° N, Hudson gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hudson

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Athens, 2.0 miles away, with 1,577 people.