New York Counties
Complete list of all 62 counties in New York with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.
Labeled outline map of New York counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.
All 62 New York counties
| County | County Seat | Population ▼ | Area | Median Income | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings | — | 2,631,396 | 71 mi² | $84,589 | 1 |
| Queens | — | 2,320,056 | 109 mi² | $86,886 | 41 |
| New York | — | 1,619,224 | 23 mi² | $111,690 | 1 |
| Suffolk | — | 1,476,044 | 912 mi² | $134,777 | 107 |
| Bronx | — | 1,412,082 | 42 mi² | $51,228 | 1 |
| Nassau | — | 1,369,359 | 285 mi² | $150,247 | 64 |
| Westchester | — | 997,782 | 431 mi² | $135,886 | 63 |
| Erie | — | 950,963 | 1,043 mi² | $77,226 | 44 |
| Monroe | — | 753,585 | 657 mi² | $82,037 | 22 |
| Richmond | — | 494,956 | 58 mi² | $99,525 | 1 |
| Onondaga | — | 465,275 | 778 mi² | $80,277 | 29 |
| Orange | — | 396,029 | 812 mi² | $97,549 | 49 |
| Rockland | — | 341,883 | 174 mi² | $108,933 | 27 |
| Albany | — | 325,230 | 523 mi² | $88,661 | 31 |
| Dutchess | — | 300,642 | 796 mi² | $101,041 | 36 |
How many counties does New York have?
New York has 62 counties covering 47,127 square miles and roughly 19,771,902 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1788 as the 11th state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.
The largest county by land area is St. Lawrence County at 2,680 square miles, home to about 105,509 residents. The most populous is Kings County with approximately 2,631,396 residents — a density of about 37,062 people per square mile.
At the other end of the scale, Hamilton County has only about 8,728 residents.
New York’s capital is Albany, while the largest city is New York City — a common pattern in the United States, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.
Related resources
Download a printable outline of New York’s county boundaries from our blank map of New York page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.
Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which New York county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.
For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any New York address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.
Two SimpleMapLab studies cover New York specifically: the 100-mile radius around Albany measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in New York ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts New York’s 62 counties in national context.
Frequently asked questions
Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.