Finger Lakes
Macedon, New York
Macedon is a hamlet — a community without a village government of its own — in Wayne County, part of New York's Finger Lakes region, with about 2,100 residents at 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
- Hamlet (CDP)
- County
- Wayne
- Region
- Finger Lakes
- Population (2020)
- 2,092
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Macedon
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
Nearby · History & Culture
Macedon's Old Lock Stone Still Tells the Story
Macedon's Erie Canal story is unusually touchable, with Lock 60, Lock 30, old towpath stone, and local marker history close together.
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Palmyra's Four Corners Make the Canal Village Stick
Palmyra's identity is easy to remember: four corner churches, a historic flagpole, and a canal-village setting in western Wayne County.
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Walworth's Fields and Cobblestone Still Tell the Story
Walworth's local texture ties western Wayne County fields, early settlers, nursery farming, and the region's remarkable cobblestone building tradition.
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Farmington's Quaker Crossroads Still Carry Reform Memory
Farmington's Quaker meetinghouse ties local settlement, reform movements, and crossroads geography into one civic memory.
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Perinton's Trails Tie Parks to the Canal
Perinton's local identity links Crescent Trail footpaths, preserved open spaces, the RS&E Trolley Trail, and Erie Canal Heritage Trail.
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Macedon's Old Lock 60 Makes Canal Engineering Visible
Macedon has direct canal-engineering texture through Enlarged Erie Lock 60, one of the corridor's surviving stone lock sites.
Read this note ->Wayne County · Rules & Licenses
Ontario's Ginna Planning Is Practical, Not Panic
Ontario residents near Ginna should know the official emergency-planning pages, siren tests, and county/state guidance before they ever need them.
Read this note ->Wayne County · History & Culture
Williamson Is Wayne County Fruit-Belt Country
Williamson mixes apple country, Pultneyville lake-port history, Underground Railroad memory, and a farm economy shaped by Lake Ontario.
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Sodus Has a Lighthouse, a Bay, and a Lake Road Memory
Sodus reads as Lake Ontario country, with a working memory of Sodus Bay, the lighthouse, old stage roads, and maritime collections.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
About $17–$32 per $1,000 in Wayne 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 $5,122–$9,633 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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