Southern Tier
Guilford, New York
Guilford is a town in Chenango County, in New York's Southern Tier region, home to about 2,700 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
- Chenango
- Region
- Southern Tier
- Population (2020)
- 2,741
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Guilford
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · The Outdoors
Guilford Lake gives the town a 70-acre kettle-lake center
Guilford Lake is a natural 70-acre kettle lake with pasture, forest, homes, a hand launch, and a local fishery.
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Bainbridge Sends Its Canoes Down the Susquehanna
Bainbridge local identity runs through the Susquehanna River, the village green, Jericho-era history, and the General Clinton Canoe Regatta.
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Oxford Keeps Its River, Fort Hill, and Burr House Close
Oxford's village center links the Chenango River, Fort Hill Park, the Theodore Burr house library, and a large historic district.
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Bainbridge Carries Jericho, Vermont Sufferers, and Small Industry
Bainbridge combines its Jericho name, Vermont Sufferers land story, rural manufacturing, and Memorial Day canoe tradition.
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Bainbridge Measures Memorial Day by the River
Bainbridge's General Clinton Canoe Regatta turns the upper Susquehanna into a civic calendar, race route, and village identity marker.
Read this note ->Nearby · Home & Property
Bainbridge Water and Code Questions Start at Village Offices
Bainbridge village residents should use the West Main Street office for clerk questions and DPW or code contacts for water and project issues.
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Gilbertsville Carries a Planned-Village Feel
Gilbertsville's small size hides a strong historic-district feel, with architecture and street pattern doing much of the talking.
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Butternuts keeps town memory close to the counter
Butternuts' local memory has a neighborly Town Hall shape, with yearbooks, old maps, documents, photos, and a named town historian.
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Norwich has mother-town roots behind the city name
The Town of Norwich has its own older layer: a 1793 formation, Oneida heritage, and territory that later helped form nearby towns.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $25–$31 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 $7,397–$9,315 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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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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