Lake Placid, New York

Lake Placid population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Placid added 32 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +29.

Lake Placid covers 1.36 square miles of land and 0.17 of water, for 1,693 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Lake Placid is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake Placid is in

All of Lake Placid's residents live in Essex County, which had 36,744 residents in 2024. Lake Placid holds 6.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Placid

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Placid by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 12946. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Lake Placid is

The Census internal point of Lake Placid is at 44.284200, -73.986400. Albany, the capital, is 113.3 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Saranac Lake, NY (4,856 people), 7.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 112.2 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Placid

At 44.28° N, Lake Placid gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Placid

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Saranac Lake, 7.7 miles away, with 4,856 people.