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Finger Lakes

Lansing, New York

Lansing is a village in Tompkins County, in New York's Finger Lakes region, home to about 3,600 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
Village
County
Tompkins
Region
Finger Lakes
Population (2020)
3,648
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Local Almanac

Notes in and around Lansing

Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.

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Nearby · History & Culture

Lansing's Salt Point Turns Industry Into Lakefront Memory

Salt Point explains Lansing through Cayuga Lake industry, Syrian worker families, canal-era shipping, and a reclaimed natural area.

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Nearby · The Outdoors

The Waterfall in Town That Beats Niagara on Height

Taughannock Falls drops 215 feet straight down — taller than Niagara — and it's one of more than 150 waterfalls hiding in the gorges around Ithaca.

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Nearby · The Outdoors

Dryden Reads Like a Rail-Trail Town

Dryden gets a practical and visual spine from a rail trail that ties village, hamlet, and town edges together.

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Nearby · History & Culture

Cayuga Heights Was Planned as a Cornell-Edge Village

Cayuga Heights reads differently when you know it was planned as a home-focused village beside a growing Cornell.

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Nearby · Home & Property

Ithaca Renovations Need the Building Permit Portal Early

Ithaca owners should check the city Building Division before treating electrical, demolition, tent, sign, or compliance work as informal.

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Nearby · History & Culture

The Two Schools That Shape Ithaca

Ithaca has been a college town since Cornell University was founded here in 1865. Together with Ithaca College, the campuses give the small Finger Lakes city its outsized buzz.

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Nearby · Cars & Driving

Tompkins DMV has a lunch break and two permit-test windows

Tompkins County DMV trips should account for the Ithaca office lunch break, permit-test windows, and driving-test timing.

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Nearby · Money & Taxes

Ithaca City Tax Payments Are a Chamberlain's Office Question

Ithaca owners should route city tax, water and sewer, and some payment questions through the Chamberlain's Office.

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Nearby · Home & Property

Ithaca general permits run through the city building route

Ithaca owners and businesses should check the city general-permit and department pages before starting permit-sensitive work.

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Property tax snapshot

About $15–$28 per $1,000 in Tompkins 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 $4,584–$8,478 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.

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Cayuga Heights

Village · Tompkins County · 4,114

Northeast Ithaca

Hamlet (CDP) · Tompkins County · 2,701

Forest Home

Hamlet (CDP) · Tompkins County · 1,168

South Lansing

Hamlet (CDP) · Tompkins County · 1,078

Northwest Ithaca

Hamlet (CDP) · Tompkins County · 2,231

Ithaca

City · Tompkins County · 32,108

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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