Menands, New York

Menands population, 2020 to 2024

Menands lost 43 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +15.

Menands covers 3.06 square miles of land and 0.25 of water, for 1,471 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Menands is less dense than the typical town.

What county Menands is in

All of Menands's residents live in Albany County, which had 319,964 residents in 2024. Menands holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Menands

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Menands by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 12204. 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 Menands is

The Census internal point of Menands is at 42.691200, -73.726200. Albany, the capital, is 3.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Watervliet, NY (10,268 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 4.0 miles away.

Daylight in Menands

At 42.69° N, Menands gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Menands

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Watervliet, 2.5 miles away, with 10,268 people.