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Schenectady, NY 12309
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Niskayuna, NY 12309
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Schdy, NY 12309
Upper Union, NY 12309

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ZIP Code 12309 has segments in 3 Counties (Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady).

The 12309 ZIP Code is centered1 in Schenectady County at latitude 42.796 and longitude -73.867 (Panoramio Photos). It is a standard type ZIP Code. Schenectady County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours) and observes daylight savings time.

The population in ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 12309 was 30,057 with 11,692 housing units; a land area land area of 18.25 sq. miles; a water area of 0.43 sq. miles; and a population density of 1,647.32 people per sq. mile for Census 2000. Demographic Profile

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Nearby Cities, Towns & Census Designated Places

Hawthorne Hill, NY (< 0.1 mile)
Niskayuna, NY (1.4 miles SE)
Vischer Ferry, NY (1.9 miles E)
Stanford Heights, NY (2.4 miles SSW)
Lisha Kill, NY (3.1 miles S)
Groom Corners, NY (3.1 miles NNE)
Maywood, NY (3.6 miles S)
Verdoy, NY (3.9 miles SE)
Schenectady, NY (3.9 miles WNW)
Aqueduct, NY (3.9 miles NNW)

Nearby Neighborhoods, Subdivisions & Other Small Populated Places

Van Buren Park Homes, NY (1.4 miles W)
Central Square Mobile Home Park, NY (2.7 miles S)
Steinmetz Homes, NY (3.1 miles W)
Lone Pine Community Mobile Home Park, NY (4.1 miles S)
Wackmans Mobile Home Park, NY (4.5 miles SSE)
Whitney Estates, NY (4.9 miles ESE)
Carmen Courts, NY (5.5 miles SW)
Springbrook Mobile Home Park, NY (5.8 miles ENE)
Mayfair, NY (6.3 miles NNW)
Latham Mobile Home Court, NY (6.4 miles SE)

ZIP Codes - Key Concepts

  1. ZIP Codes are categories for grouping mailing addresses and are not exact geographic regions.
  2. The centroid of a ZIP Code may be in one County and the associated city/town in another.
  3. In rural areas, a single ZIP Code may be used for cities and towns in several different Counties.
  4. ZIP Code "areas" can overlap, be subsets of each other, or be artificial constructs with no geographic area.
  5. ZIP Codes are only loosely tied to cities.

1 Keeping the above key concepts in mind, what we informally refer to as the "center" of a ZIP Code is most often actually the centroid of a polygon.