Monroe, New York

Monroe population, 2020 to 2024

Monroe added 12 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by -6. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 66th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Monroe is 92% of it.

Monroe covers 3.49 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 2,723 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Monroe is less dense than the typical town.

What county Monroe is in

All of Monroe's residents live in Orange County, which had 411,767 residents in 2024. Monroe holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Monroe

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Monroe by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 10950. 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 Monroe is

The Census internal point of Monroe is at 41.317700, -74.185700. Albany, the capital, is 94.9 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kiryas Joel, NY (43,863 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 27.8 miles away.

Daylight in Monroe

At 41.32° N, Monroe gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Monroe

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Kiryas Joel, 1.9 miles away, with 43,863 people.