Finger Lakes

Wyoming County, New York

Wyoming County is home to 40,531 people in the Finger Lakes region. Eleven glacial lakes lined with waterfalls, gorges, and the state's biggest wine country.

How Wyoming County works

The county is one layer, not the whole local government.

County government does some local jobs, but not all of them. Cities, towns, villages, schools, and courts each keep their own work.

Ordinary example

A homeowner in Wyoming County plans an addition and a new septic system

The city, town, or village handles the building and zoning start. County public health may handle the septic work. The County Clerk keeps the deed, and the school district controls its own tax and enrollment line. The county name alone does not choose every office.

Population (2020)
40,531
Region
Finger Lakes
Places
27

Property tax in Wyoming County

County-wide planning range: $18.4–$35.3 per $1,000

The FY2025 source rows combine county + town/city + school on a full-value basis. On a $300,000 home, that is roughly $5,523–$10,587 a year before STAR, exemptions, village taxes, and special-district charges. This is not a county minimum or maximum bill; it is a broad comparison across different municipalities and school districts.

Who handles this here

Start at the counter that owns the record.

New York divides everyday work among municipal, county, state, court, and City offices. This is the routing map. Confirm current forms, fees, hours, and deadlines on the official office page before acting.

Open the official Wyoming County website ->

County service directory

Go straight to the county office.

These links open the responsible county department, not a general homepage. A city, town, court, school district, or state agency may still own the final step.

County Clerk and land records

Wyoming County Clerk

Deeds, mortgages, recorded documents, copies, and the county's official records handoff.

Real property and tax maps

Wyoming County Real Property Tax Services

County tax maps, parcel resources, and assessment support. Check whether the county or local assessor owns the roll.

Elections and voter help

Wyoming County Board of Elections

Registration, polling places, absentee or early-mail voting, and local election information.

Local public-health programs, environmental-health contacts, and current notices.

County-administered benefits, family services, adult services, and help finding the right program.

Emergency management and alerts

Wyoming County Emergency Services

Preparedness, local emergency information, and the county's route to public alerts.

Official county pages reviewed 2026-07-13. Confirm current forms, fees, hours, and deadlines with the office before acting.

Other county routes

Probate, administration, and small estates

Wyoming County Surrogate's Court

New York Courts routes estate proceedings through the Surrogate's Court in the county of the person's domicile.

Driver and vehicle counter service

The serving DMV office

Office ownership and available transactions vary. Use DMV's location finder before traveling, and check whether an appointment is expected.

Birth, death, marriage, and divorce records

The office that holds that event record

The right owner depends on the event, date, and whether it happened in New York City. The records guide sorts those lanes first.

Confirm the current service arrangement on the responsible official page.

Local stories & notes

More about Wyoming County

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

Home & Property

Perry Owners Should Sort Town, Village, and County Early

Perry property questions often turn on whether the address is town or village, and whether zoning, taxes, water, or building code is county-routed.

History & Culture

Perry Turns Downtown Pavement Into an Art Day

Perry's art identity shows up on Main Street through the Chalk Art Festival, Arts Council presence, library history, and downtown public culture.

History & Culture

Perry Looks Toward Silver Lake and Letchworth

Perry sits between highland farm settlement, Silver Lake, village trail planning, and the nearby Genesee River gorge.

History & Culture

Bennington's town site keeps rural services visible

Bennington's NY town source shows a Wyoming County government hub for town clerk, zoning, water, highway, historian, park, and county routing.

Outdoors

Castile Looks Toward the Genesee Gorge

Castile's local map is shaped by Letchworth, where the Genesee River drops through a deep gorge and three major waterfalls.

History & Culture

Warsaw is Wyoming County's civic center and a town in its own right

Warsaw carries a town-and-village identity while also gathering many Wyoming County civic errands in one familiar place.

History & Culture

Warsaw's Center Is a Real Civic Circle

Warsaw's local identity gathers around Monument Circle, county-seat functions, Route 19 and 20A, and a compact civic downtown.

History & Culture

Attica's Museum Parlor and Prison Records Tell Two Institutional Stories

Attica's local historical society and state archives show a town remembered through both community collecting and a major twentieth-century prison institution.

History & Culture

Wyoming Still Uses the Gaslight Village Story

Wyoming's village identity turns on early natural gas, gas streetlights, Oatka Creek country, and a historic district.

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.

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