Rensselaer, New York

Rensselaer population, 2020 to 2024

Rensselaer added 248 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +121. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Rensselaer is 92% of it.

Rensselaer covers 3.17 square miles of land and 0.33 of water, for 2,982 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Rensselaer is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rensselaer is in

All of Rensselaer's residents live in Rensselaer County, which had 160,749 residents in 2024. Rensselaer holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rensselaer

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rensselaer by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 12144. 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 Rensselaer is

The Census internal point of Rensselaer is at 42.645700, -73.732500. Albany, the capital, is 1.3 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Albany, NY (101,317 people), 3.6 miles away.

Daylight in Rensselaer

At 42.65° N, Rensselaer 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 Rensselaer

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Menands, 3.2 miles away, with 4,501 people.