New York Population 2024 Census Population. New york city, new york. The population of new york in 2020 was 20,104,710, a 3.3% increase from 2019.
The metro area population of new york city in 2023 was 18,937,000, a 0.37% increase. In 2022, new york, ny had a population of 8.62m people with a median age of 37.5 and a median household income of $76,607.