Hudson Valley
Katonah, New York
Katonah is a hamlet — a community without a village government of its own — in Westchester County, part of New York's Hudson Valley region, with about 1,600 residents at the 2020 census.
Historic estates, farm-to-table towns, and Hudson River art and mountains. Katonah sits in that part of the state.
- Type
- Hamlet (CDP)
- County
- Westchester
- Region
- Hudson Valley
- Population (2020)
- 1,603
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Katonah
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · 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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Lewisboro's Lakes Sit on Old Borderlands
Lewisboro's lakes, old boundary disputes, and hamlet history make the town a watershed-and-borderlands place.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
About $13–$29 per $1,000 in Westchester 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 $3,933–$8,699 a year before the STAR break. A hamlet has no government of its own — it's taxed at the rates of the town it sits in.
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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