Walden, New York

Walden population, 2020 to 2024

Walden added 44 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by -22. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 50th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Walden is 67% of it.

Walden covers 2.01 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 3,437 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Walden is close to the typical town.

What county Walden is in

All of Walden's residents live in Orange County, which had 411,767 residents in 2024. Walden holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Walden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Walden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 12586. 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 Walden is

The Census internal point of Walden is at 41.560000, -74.188200. Albany, the capital, is 78.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Newburgh, NY (28,181 people), 9.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 44.6 miles away.

Daylight in Walden

At 41.56° N, Walden gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Walden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Montgomery, 3.7 miles away, with 3,781 people.