Oswego, New York

Oswego population, 2020 to 2024

Oswego added 123 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +45. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Oswego is 1.7 times that size.

Oswego covers 7.61 square miles of land and 3.61 of water, for 2,240 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Oswego is less dense than the typical town.

What county Oswego is in

All of Oswego's residents live in Oswego County, which had 118,305 residents in 2024. Oswego holds 14.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oswego

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oswego by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 13126. 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 Oswego is

The Census internal point of Oswego is at 43.458100, -76.503700. Albany, the capital, is 149.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Syracuse, NY (146,097 people), 34.1 miles away.

Daylight in Oswego

At 43.46° N, Oswego gets about 15 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oswego

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Fulton, 10.5 miles away, with 11,234 people.