Western New York
Allegany County, New York
Allegany County is home to 46,456 people across 47 cities, towns, villages, and hamlets. Niagara Falls, Buffalo, the Erie Canal, and the Concord-grape belt.
- Population (2020)
- 46,456
- Region
- Western New York
- Places
- 47
Property tax in Allegany County
About $23–$39 per $1,000 of market value
Combined full-value rates (county + town/city + school) across the county, FY2025. On a $300,000 home that's roughly $6,847–$11,755 a year before STAR. The exact rate depends on the town, school district, and village. A planning estimate, not a bill.
Almanac Notes
More about Allegany County
Short, sourced notes tied to this county, with the local color and the things worth knowing before you make a plan.
History & Culture
Angelica's Park Circle makes the village readable
Angelica's octagonal green, old courthouse, fairgrounds, roque court, and antique-shop village center make local history unusually visible.
History & Culture
Wellsville Still Shows Its Oil-Boom Bones
Wellsville's local texture connects Genesee River industry, oil-boom houses, the Sinclair refinery legacy, and emerging historic-district work.
History & Culture
Alfred's Clay, Glass, and Campus Craft
Alfred's place identity is unusually tied to ceramics, glass, art, engineering, and the long presence of Alfred University.
History & Culture
Cuba Has Cheese, Canal Water, and Ice
Cuba's local story ties cheese aging, Cuba Lake, and the Genesee Valley Canal into a compact Allegany County identity.
Home & Property
Wellsville Code and Tax Questions Depend on the Line
Wellsville residents should check whether a question belongs to town offices, village code enforcement, assessor, clerk, or tax collector before assuming one desk handles it.
History & Culture
Friendship Grew Along Van Campen Creek
Friendship's official pages connect its peaceful name to old conflicts, Van Campen Creek, early mills, taverns, and valley roads.
Home & Property
Allegany Parcel Questions Start With Maps and Records
Allegany County property checks often start with Real Property tax maps, GIS mapping, and filed survey or oil-and-gas records.
Cars & Driving
Allegany DMV testing has an earlier CDL clock
Allegany County DMV customers should separate Belmont office hours, CDL testing hours, and other testing hours before leaving home.
History & Culture
Belmont's county-seat story was not settled in one vote
Belmont's village story runs through Philipsburg, the Genesee River, the Erie Railroad, a county-seat fight, and courthouse memory.
Towns (29)
Villages (10)
Hamlets (7)
Reservations (1)
Statewide starting points
County, assessor, STAR, and environment lookups
Start with the state county directory, then use ORPTS for assessor, equalization-rate, and municipal profile data. Exact local offices and deadlines still come from the county, city, town, village, or borough office.
- NY.Gov county directory
- ORPTS Municipal Data Portal — assessors & rates
- STAR property-tax break
- DECinfo Locator
Use this carefully: County pages here are orientation pages. Current forms, deadlines, local offices, and parcel-specific details come from the responsible office.
Tax rates: NYS Dept of Taxation & Finance (ORPTS), Real Property Tax Rates and Levy Data by Municipality, data.ny.gov dataset iq85-sdzs. (FY2025). Population: U.S. Census 2020. Reviewed June 2026.
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