Lackawanna, New York

Lackawanna population, 2020 to 2024

Lackawanna lost 302 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -6. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 119th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Lackawanna is 1.9 times that size.

Lackawanna covers 6.55 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 2,997 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Lackawanna is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lackawanna is in

All of Lackawanna's residents live in Erie County, which had 950,602 residents in 2024. Lackawanna holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lackawanna

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lackawanna by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 14218. 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 Lackawanna is

The Census internal point of Lackawanna is at 42.818400, -78.832800. Albany, the capital, is 257.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Buffalo, NY (276,617 people), 5.3 miles away.

Daylight in Lackawanna

At 42.82° N, Lackawanna gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lackawanna

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Blasdell, 1.5 miles away, with 2,557 people.