Wappingers Falls, New York

Wappingers Falls population, 2020 to 2024

Wappingers Falls lost 34 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +5. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 90th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Wappingers Falls is 59% of it.

Wappingers Falls covers 1.12 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 5,420 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Wappingers Falls is denser than the typical town.

What county Wappingers Falls is in

All of Wappingers Falls's residents live in Dutchess County, which had 299,963 residents in 2024. Wappingers Falls holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wappingers Falls

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wappingers Falls by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 12590. 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 Wappingers Falls is

The Census internal point of Wappingers Falls is at 41.598200, -73.916900. Albany, the capital, is 73.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Poughkeepsie, NY (32,293 people), 6.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Stamford, CT, 40.6 miles away.

Daylight in Wappingers Falls

At 41.60° N, Wappingers Falls 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 Wappingers Falls

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Fishkill, 4.6 miles away, with 2,146 people.