Plattsburgh, New York

Plattsburgh population, 2020 to 2024

Plattsburgh lost 81 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +15. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 81st; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Plattsburgh is 1.9 times that size.

Plattsburgh covers 5.37 square miles of land and 1.57 of water, for 3,679 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Plattsburgh is close to the typical town.

What county Plattsburgh is in

All of Plattsburgh's residents live in Clinton County, which had 77,871 residents in 2024. Plattsburgh holds 25.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Plattsburgh

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Plattsburgh by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 12901, 12903. 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 Plattsburgh is

The Census internal point of Plattsburgh is at 44.692000, -73.458300. Albany, the capital, is 141.7 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Burlington, VT (44,432 people), 17.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 141.1 miles away.

Daylight in Plattsburgh

At 44.69° N, Plattsburgh gets about 15 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Plattsburgh

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Dannemora, 12.9 miles away, with 2,384 people.