New York · Census place 3642224

Liberty, New York

Liberty is a village in Sullivan County, New York with an estimated 5,136 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 166th largest of 419 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
5,136
#166 of 419 in New York
Change since 2020
+2.1%
+108 people
Land area
2.6 sq mi
Density
1,960 / sq mi
State median 3,760
Orange pin: Liberty. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Albany.

Liberty population, 2020 to 2024

Liberty added 108 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -21. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 26th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Liberty is 50% of it.

5,02820205,21320215,15820225,15720235,1362024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 5,007. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Liberty covers 2.62 square miles of land, for 1,960 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Liberty is less dense than the typical town.

What county Liberty is in

All of Liberty's residents live in Sullivan County, which had 80,450 residents in 2024. Liberty holds 6.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Liberty

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Liberty by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 12754. 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 Liberty is

The Census internal point of Liberty is at 41.796600, -74.743200. Albany, the capital, is 77.8 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Monticello, NY (7,228 people), 10.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 68.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.796600, -74.743200
DMS
41°47'47.76"N 74°44'35.52"W
UTM
18N 521335.2E 4627225.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
87H7Q7W4+JP

Daylight in Liberty

At 41.80° N, Liberty gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Liberty

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Monticello, 10.4 miles away, with 7,228 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Liberty, NY?

5,136 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 108 (2.1%) from 5,028 in July 2020.

What county is Liberty in?

Sullivan County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Liberty?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 12754.

How far is Liberty from Albany?

77.8 miles (125.1 km) in a straight line, heading NE from Liberty.

What is the nearest larger city to Liberty?

Monticello, NY, with 7,228 residents, 10.4 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.