Mechanicville, New York

Mechanicville population, 2020 to 2024

Mechanicville lost 79 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -9. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 120th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Mechanicville is 49% of it.

Mechanicville covers 0.84 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 6,051 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Mechanicville is denser than the typical town.

What county Mechanicville is in

All of Mechanicville's residents live in Saratoga County, which had 240,360 residents in 2024. Mechanicville 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 Mechanicville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mechanicville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 12118. 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 Mechanicville is

The Census internal point of Mechanicville is at 42.904100, -73.688900. Albany, the capital, is 17.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cohoes, NY (18,530 people), 9.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 17.4 miles away.

Daylight in Mechanicville

At 42.90° N, Mechanicville gets about 15 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mechanicville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Stillwater, 3.9 miles away, with 1,759 people.