Capital Region
Castleton-on-Hudson, New York
Castleton-on-Hudson is a village in Rensselaer County, in New York's Capital Region region, home to about 1,500 people as of the 2020 census.
Albany the capital, Revolutionary Saratoga, spas, and horse racing. Castleton-on-Hudson sits in that part of the state.
- Type
- Village
- County
- Rensselaer
- Region
- Capital Region
- Population (2020)
- 1,477
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Castleton-on-Hudson
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
Nearby · History & Culture
East Greenbush Follows Papscanee to the Hudson
Papscanee Island Nature Preserve gives East Greenbush a Hudson River landscape of trails, floodplain woods, and Mohican memory.
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Schodack Rests on the River Island
Schodack Island State Park gives Schodack a Hudson River landscape of shoreline, trails, estuary habitat, and local history.
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Coeymans Keeps a Hudson Landing Memory
Coeymans' Hudson River edge, creek valley, landing name, and old river trade make the town feel like a working upper-Hudson place.
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Bethlehem's Color Opens Into Five Rivers
Five Rivers gives Bethlehem fields, forests, wetlands, and a public learning landscape just outside Delmar.
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Schodack keeps its old hamlets in the photo drawer
Schodack's historian page gives Rensselaer County color through Castleton, Schodack Landing, old rail images, and hamlet memory.
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Upper-Hudson Waterfront Lots Need A Flood-Map Check
River and creek properties in the upper Hudson corridor deserve a calm FEMA flood-map check before buying, building, or planning major repairs.
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Coeymans Projects Need The Permit Office Before The Work
Before starting Coeymans building work, check the town building department and site-plan rules instead of relying on a contractor's guess.
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East Greenbush building permits have a town code route
East Greenbush residents should use the town building and code pages before beginning work that may need a permit.
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East Greenbush tax payments run through the receiver route
East Greenbush property owners can use the receiver of taxes and staff-directory pages for tax-payment questions.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
About $13–$30 per $1,000 in Rensselaer County
Combined full-value rate — county + town/city + school district, per $1,000 of market value (FY2025). On a $300,000 home that's about $3,971–$8,868 a year before the STAR break. A village is assessed within its town; expect the town's rate plus a separate village tax.
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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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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