Hudson Valley
Somers, New York
Somers is a town in Westchester County, in New York's Hudson Valley region, home to about 21,500 people as of the 2020 census.
Historic estates, farm-to-table towns, and Hudson River art and mountains. Somers sits in that part of the state.
- Type
- Town
- County
- Westchester
- Region
- Hudson Valley
- Population (2020)
- 21,541
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Notes in and around Somers
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This place · History & Culture
Somers Stands by the Elephant Hotel
Somers's local identity connects Elephant Hotel circus memory with town offices, the historical society, and nearby Muscoot Farm.
Read this note ->This place · The Outdoors
Lasdon gives Somers a garden-and-memorial landscape
Lasdon Public Gardens and Veterans Memorial gives the Somers area gardens, county parkland, and public memorial space.
Read this note ->Nearby · History & Culture
Yorktown Crosses the Croton at Pines Bridge
The Pines Bridge story gives Yorktown a Revolutionary-era crossing where local landscape and shared military memory meet.
Read this note ->Nearby · History & Culture
Caramoor ties Katonah music to an estate landscape
Caramoor gives Katonah music, gardens, estate architecture, and a cultural campus that turns a Westchester visit into a place story.
Read this note ->Nearby · History & Culture
Katonah Museum Gives Bedford a Compact Arts Address
Katonah Museum gives the hamlet a public contemporary-art address in northern Westchester.
Read this note ->Nearby · History & Culture
Katonah’s library helps explain a moved hamlet
Katonah’s library history points to a hamlet whose identity includes relocation, civic memory, and a walkable center.
Read this note ->Westchester County · History & Culture
Washington Irving rests in the cemetery that gave the village its name
Sleepy Hollow got its name from Washington Irving's 1820 tale of the Headless Horseman. Irving himself is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where his simple gravestone is the most-visited spot.
Read this note ->Westchester County · History & Culture
Mount Kisco Became Its Own Village-Town After the Railroad
Mount Kisco's unusual government shape starts with a railroad village that later separated from Bedford and New Castle.
Read this note ->Westchester County · History & Culture
Harrison village history sits inside a town-village government
Harrison village history is tied to a rare town-village frame, local historian pages, and a Westchester identity that crosses hamlets.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $23–$24 per $1,000
Combined full-value rate — county + town/city + school district, per $1,000 of market value (FY2025). On a $300,000 home that's about $6,918–$7,192 a year before the STAR break.
A planning estimate, not a bill. Your exact rate depends on your school district and any village. Confirm with the assessor.
Statewide links
Statewide starting points.
Good to know
- • Your assessed value usually isn't your market value — ask for the equalization rate.
- • Register for STAR; new applicants generally receive a credit instead of an automatic exemption on the bill.
- • Outside the cities, check the well, the septic, and the FEMA flood map before you buy.
Nearby
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Hamlet (CDP) · Westchester County · 1,903
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Heritage Hills
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Golden's Bridge
Hamlet (CDP) · Westchester County · 1,628
Yorktown Heights
Hamlet (CDP) · Westchester County · 1,884
Katonah
Hamlet (CDP) · Westchester County · 1,603
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. Source data ->
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