Southern Tier
Maine, New York
Maine is a town in Broome County, in New York's Southern Tier region, home to about 5,200 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
- Broome
- Region
- Southern Tier
- Population (2020)
- 5,168
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Maine
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · The Outdoors
Maine's park puts Nanticoke Creek into the town's everyday geography
Maine's town park gives the place a public landscape of open space, forest, Nanticoke Creek, sports fields, pavilions, and walking loop.
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Maine Puts Code, Tax Collection, and the Parcel Mapper on One Department Page
Maine's departments page gives residents one official route to assessor, code enforcement, tax collection, and Broome parcel lookup.
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Town of Maine Park Permits Are Part of the Local Recreation Check
Maine's park page gives pavilion fees, park hours, and a town-clerk reservation route for residents and nonresidents.
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Dickinson is a compact town with county institutions in its story
Dickinson's comprehensive plan frames a compact town shaped by the Chenango River, Port Dickinson, county facilities, and Binghamton-edge geography.
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Union's Story Runs Through Worker-Town Industry
Union's identity includes Endicott, Johnson City, the Susquehanna setting, and industrial communities shaped by shoes, worker benefits, and IBM.
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Endicott Still Shows the Factory-Village Pattern
Endicott’s local texture comes from an industrial village pattern shaped by factories, workers, and planned civic life.
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Dickinson Building Permits Are Tied to State Code and Town Zoning
Dickinson's code office enforces New York State building codes and town zoning, so both layers can matter before work starts.
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Johnson City Carries the Square Deal Memory
Johnson City's name and civic texture still point back to Endicott Johnson and the company-town promise of the Square Deal.
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Nanticoke keeps old mill names in a small Broome town
Nanticoke's local story runs through 1793 settlement, an 1831 town formation, flour and lumber mills, Glen Aubrey, and Lambs Corners.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $23–$30 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 $7,005–$9,119 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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