New York · Census place 3657177

Penn Yan, New York

Penn Yan is a village in Yates County, New York with an estimated 5,024 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 168th largest of 419 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
5,024
#168 of 419 in New York
Change since 2020
-1.8%
-91 people
Land area
2.4 sq mi
+ 0.06 sq mi water
Density
2,093 / sq mi
State median 3,760
Orange pin: Penn Yan. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Albany.

Penn Yan population, 2020 to 2024

Penn Yan lost 91 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by -7. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 130th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Penn Yan is 49% of it.

5,11520205,08420215,04620225,03120235,0242024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 5,118. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Penn Yan covers 2.40 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 2,093 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Penn Yan is less dense than the typical town.

What county Penn Yan is in

All of Penn Yan's residents live in Yates County, which had 24,387 residents in 2024. Penn Yan holds 20.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Penn Yan

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Penn Yan by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 14527. 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 Penn Yan is

The Census internal point of Penn Yan is at 42.660700, -77.053100. Albany, the capital, is 167.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Geneva, NY (12,397 people), 14.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rochester, NY, 45.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
42.660700, -77.053100
DMS
42°39'38.52"N 77°03'11.16"W
UTM
18N 331734.4E 4725180.7N
Geohash
dr94ww5ss
Plus code
87J4MW6W+7Q

Daylight in Penn Yan

At 42.66° N, Penn Yan gets about 15 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 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 Penn Yan

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Dundee, 10.2 miles away, with 1,682 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Penn Yan, NY?

5,024 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 91 (1.8%) from 5,115 in July 2020.

What county is Penn Yan in?

Yates County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Penn Yan?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 14527.

How far is Penn Yan from Albany?

167.5 miles (269.5 km) in a straight line, heading E from Penn Yan.

What is the nearest larger city to Penn Yan?

Geneva, NY, with 12,397 residents, 14.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.