Saranac Lake, New York

Saranac Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Saranac Lake lost 102 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -18.

Saranac Lake covers 2.91 square miles of land and 0.25 of water, for 1,669 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Saranac Lake is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Saranac Lake spans

Saranac Lake crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 4,856 residents as follows; Franklin County holds 72.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Saranac Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Saranac Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 12983. 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 Saranac Lake is

The Census internal point of Saranac Lake is at 44.325900, -74.130900. Albany, the capital, is 117.1 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Malone, NY (5,373 people), 36.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 115.9 miles away.

Daylight in Saranac Lake

At 44.33° N, Saranac Lake gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Saranac Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Lake Placid, 7.7 miles away, with 2,302 people.