Kingston, New York

Kingston population, 2020 to 2024

Kingston lost 233 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -68. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 107th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Kingston is 2.3 times that size.

Kingston covers 7.48 square miles of land and 1.29 of water, for 3,175 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Kingston is less dense than the typical town.

What county Kingston is in

All of Kingston's residents live in Ulster County, which had 182,977 residents in 2024. Kingston holds 13.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kingston

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kingston by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 12401. 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 Kingston is

The Census internal point of Kingston is at 41.930100, -73.996800. Albany, the capital, is 51.4 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Poughkeepsie, NY (32,293 people), 16.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 51.8 miles away.

Daylight in Kingston

At 41.93° N, Kingston gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kingston

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Rhinebeck, 4.4 miles away, with 2,586 people.