Utica, New York

Utica population, 2020 to 2024

Utica lost 1,513 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by -16. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 152nd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Utica is 6.2 times that size.

Utica covers 16.72 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 3,807 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Utica is close to the typical town.

What county Utica is in

All of Utica's residents live in Oneida County, which had 228,347 residents in 2024. Utica holds 27.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Utica

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Utica by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 13501, 13502. 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 Utica is

The Census internal point of Utica is at 43.096400, -75.226000. Albany, the capital, is 80.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Syracuse, NY (146,097 people), 46.5 miles away.

Daylight in Utica

At 43.10° N, Utica gets about 15 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Utica

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Yorkville, 2.7 miles away, with 2,592 people.