Valley Stream, New York

Valley Stream population, 2020 to 2024

Valley Stream lost 268 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +96. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 93rd; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Valley Stream is 3.9 times that size.

Valley Stream covers 3.48 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 11,561 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Valley Stream is denser than the typical town.

What county Valley Stream is in

All of Valley Stream's residents live in Nassau County, which had 1,392,438 residents in 2024. Valley Stream holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Valley Stream

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Valley Stream by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 11580, 11581. 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 Valley Stream is

The Census internal point of Valley Stream is at 40.664700, -73.704900. Albany, the capital, is 137.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hempstead, NY (59,569 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 12.2 miles away.

Daylight in Valley Stream

At 40.66° N, Valley Stream gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Valley Stream

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Lynbrook, 1.7 miles away, with 20,684 people.