#T1Kiryas Joel
Orange County32,956 in 2020·47,147 in 2025·+14,191 people
Kiryas Joel, #1 on this list · Photo: The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia.; dropped by Beyond My Ken 20:59, 24 September 2014 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0New York rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in New York
Kiryas Joel (tied with 1 more) has grown fastest of New York’s 764 towns of 2,500+: up 43.1% from 32,956 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 47,147 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed −1.0%; 516 of the 764 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#T1+43.1%
#T1Palm Tree
Orange County32,956 in 2020·47,147 in 2025·+14,191 people
#3Delhi
Delaware County2,788 in 2020·3,526 in 2025·+738 people
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Growth since 2020, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 4 towns here).
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What is the fastest-growing town in New York?
Kiryas Joel (Orange County): it grew 43.1%, from 32,956 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 47,147 in July 2025. Palm Tree (+43.1%) and Delhi (+26.5%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (764 in New York). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the New York page.
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