Ithaca, New York

Ithaca population, 2020 to 2024

Ithaca added 3,588 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.9%. In the latest year it moved by +138. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Ithaca is 3.3 times that size.

Ithaca covers 5.39 square miles of land and 0.68 of water, for 6,265 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Ithaca is denser than the typical town.

What county Ithaca is in

All of Ithaca's residents live in Tompkins County, which had 105,602 residents in 2024. Ithaca holds 32.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ithaca

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Ithaca by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 14850, 14853. 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 Ithaca is

The Census internal point of Ithaca is at 42.443900, -76.503100. Albany, the capital, is 140.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Binghamton, NY (46,773 people), 38.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Syracuse, NY, 45.1 miles away.

Daylight in Ithaca

At 42.44° N, Ithaca gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ithaca

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Cayuga Heights, 1.8 miles away, with 3,949 people.