Hudson Valley
Bedford, New York
Bedford is a town in Westchester County, in New York's Hudson Valley region, home to about 17,500 people as of the 2020 census.
Like the rest of upstate New York, an assessed value here usually isn't the market value; the state's equalization rate reconciles the two. The local rate is below, and the STAR program can lower the school-tax part of the bill.
- Type
- Town
- County
- Westchester
- Region
- Hudson Valley
- Population (2020)
- 17,309
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Bedford
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · History & Culture
Bedford Centers Its Memory on the Village Green
Bedford Village Green keeps court, preservation, Revolutionary War memory, and local civic life close together.
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John Jay Homestead Gives Bedford a Public Founding-Era Site
John Jay Homestead ties Bedford to Revolutionary public service, diplomacy, law, anti-slavery work, a 714-acre farm estate, and a public historic landscape.
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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.
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Katonah Museum Gives Bedford a Compact Arts Address
Katonah Museum gives the hamlet a public contemporary-art address in northern Westchester.
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Bedford’s timeline gives the town a hamlet-and-road memory
Bedford's town history timeline helps explain a place built from older hamlets, roads, and civic continuity rather than one single downtown.
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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.
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Mount Kisco Parking Has Permit and Meter Layers
Mount Kisco drivers should separate permit parking, meter rules, handicap permits, and enforcement hours before leaving a car downtown or near the station.
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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.
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Pound Ridge keeps history close to the Town House
Pound Ridge includes a local museum and historical program center beside Conant Hall in the hamlet.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $20–$23 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 $6,015–$7,045 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.
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Nearby places
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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