Salamanca, New York

Salamanca population, 2020 to 2024

Salamanca lost 177 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by -36. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 160th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Salamanca is 56% of it.

Salamanca covers 5.99 square miles of land and 0.24 of water, for 961 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Salamanca is less dense than the typical town.

What county Salamanca is in

All of Salamanca's residents live in Cattaraugus County, which had 75,475 residents in 2024. Salamanca holds 7.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salamanca

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Salamanca by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 14779. 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 Salamanca is

The Census internal point of Salamanca is at 42.164700, -78.741300. Albany, the capital, is 256.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bradford, PA (7,538 people), 15.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Buffalo, NY, 50.6 miles away.

Daylight in Salamanca

At 42.16° N, Salamanca gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Salamanca

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Little Valley, 6.6 miles away, with 1,073 people.