Finger Lakes

Ontario County, New York

Ontario County is home to 112,458 people across 31 cities, towns, villages, and hamlets. Eleven glacial lakes lined with waterfalls, gorges, and the state's biggest wine country.

Population (2020): 112,458
Region: Finger Lakes
Places: 31

Tax snapshot County notes Places Statewide links

Property tax in Ontario County

About $12–$34 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 $3,576–$10,115 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 Ontario County

Short, sourced notes tied to this county, with the local color and the things worth knowing before you make a plan.

History & Culture

Gorham Is the Bandstand of the Finger Lakes With an Older Easton Past

Gorham's town pages connect its Canandaigua Lake edge, 1790s formation, name changes, and Bandstand of the Finger Lakes identity.

History & Culture

Phelps Keeps Its Flavor in Flint Creek and Sauerkraut

Phelps has a lively village identity around Flint Creek Falls, historic downtown walks, Ontario Pathways, and its annual sauerkraut tradition.

History & Culture

Farmington's Quaker Crossroads Still Carry Reform Memory

Farmington's Quaker meetinghouse ties local settlement, reform movements, and crossroads geography into one civic memory.

History & Culture

Victor Begins at Ganondagan

Ganondagan gives Victor a Seneca town landscape of longhouse interpretation, trail memory, and Haudenosaunee history.

History & Culture

Canandaigua Holds Treaty Memory and Garden Views

Canandaigua's story connects the 1794 Pickering Treaty, lake-country civic planning, City Pier, and Sonnenberg Gardens.

History & Culture

Geneva Grew Nurseries Beside Seneca Lake

Geneva's identity connects Seneca Lake, nursery agriculture, Hobart and William Smith, and long-running Finger Lakes institutions.

The Outdoors

Richmond Shares Its Front Yard With Honeoye Lake

Richmond's Finger Lakes identity is practical lake country: Honeoye views, shallow water, nearshore weeds, and recurring management questions.

History & Culture

Canandaigua town reads as lake country with older civic roots

The town around Canandaigua Lake has its own civic story, with local history reaching back to a 1791 town formation.

Home & Property

Manchester Permits Start with the Town Code Office

Manchester residents should separate building-permit questions, town/county taxes, water payments, dog licenses, and village-specific permit forms before starting paperwork.

Cities (2)

Geneva · 12,812 Canandaigua · 10,576

Towns (16)

Victor · 15,860 Farmington · 14,170 Canandaigua · 11,109 Manchester · 9,404 Phelps · 6,637 Gorham · 4,106 Hopewell · 3,931 East Bloomfield · 3,640 Geneva · 3,473 Richmond · 3,360 West Bloomfield · 2,740 Seneca · 2,644 Naples · 2,403 Bristol · 2,284 Canadice · 1,668 South Bristol · 1,641

Villages (8)

Victor · 2,744 Clifton Springs · 2,209 Phelps · 1,851 Manchester · 1,640 Shortsville · 1,400 Bloomfield · 1,277 Naples · 931 Rushville · 651

Hamlets (5)

Honeoye · 723 Crystal Beach · 627 Gorham · 604 Port Gibson · 405 Hall · 202

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.

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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