Spackenkill, New York

Spackenkill, New York
Census-designated place
Residential area in Spackenkill, December 2019
Location of Spackenkill, New York
Coordinates: 41°39′33″N 73°54′52″W / 41.65917°N 73.91444°W / 41.65917; -73.91444
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Dutchess
Town	Poughkeepsie
Area [1]
• Total	1.80 sq mi (4.66 km2)
• Land	1.80 sq mi (4.65 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation	175 ft (53 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	4,223
• Density	2,350.03/sq mi (907.23/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	12603
Area code	845
FIPS code	36-70035
GNIS feature ID	1867420

Spackenkill (/ˈspækənˌkɪl/) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 4,123 at the 2010 census.^[2] It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

Spackenkill is in the town of Poughkeepsie. Children in the community, if they attend public school, go to the Spackenkill Union Free School District. An IBM plant is also located in this community, and many of its employees live in Spackenkill. Several informal neighborhoods exist within the Spackenkill community such as Hagantown, Nassau, King George, Beechwood, Crown Heights, and Kingwood Park. These neighborhoods contain some of the schools of the Spackenkill School District.