Nassau, New York

Nassau population, 2020 to 2024

Nassau lost 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

Nassau covers 0.70 square miles of land, for 1,559 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Nassau is less dense than the typical town.

What county Nassau is in

All of Nassau's residents live in Rensselaer County, which had 160,749 residents in 2024. Nassau holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Nassau

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Nassau by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 12123. 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 Nassau is

The Census internal point of Nassau is at 42.514000, -73.610700. Albany, the capital, is 12.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Castleton-on-Hudson, NY (1,471 people), 7.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 14.2 miles away.

Daylight in Nassau

At 42.51° N, Nassau gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Nassau

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Castleton-on-Hudson, 7.2 miles away, with 1,471 people.