Jamestown, New York

Jamestown population, 2020 to 2024

Jamestown lost 974 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.4%. In the latest year it moved by -257. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 164th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Jamestown is 2.7 times that size.

Jamestown covers 8.90 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 3,112 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Jamestown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Jamestown is in

All of Jamestown's residents live in Chautauqua County, which had 124,105 residents in 2024. Jamestown holds 22.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jamestown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jamestown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 14701. 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 Jamestown is

The Census internal point of Jamestown is at 42.097600, -79.236100. Albany, the capital, is 282.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Erie, PA (92,940 people), 42.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Buffalo, NY, 58.2 miles away.

Daylight in Jamestown

At 42.10° N, Jamestown gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jamestown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Celoron, 2.2 miles away, with 1,054 people.