Western New York
North Boston, New York
North Boston is a hamlet — a community without a village government of its own — in Erie County, part of New York's Western New York region, with about 2,500 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
- Erie
- Region
- Western New York
- Population (2020)
- 2,529
Local Almanac
Notes in and around North Boston
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
Nearby · Home & Property
Orchard Park Building and Tax Checks Start Early
Orchard Park owners should check town permit rules, zoning paths, tax-map details, and the online tax bill system before work or payment deadlines.
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Eden's Mill Story Runs Up Eighteen Mile Creek
Eden's official history makes Eighteen Mile Creek the thread linking early settlement, early mills, and the town's farm identity.
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North Collins Has Both a Town and Village Story
North Collins has a rural Erie County town story with a village layer inside it, which matters for offices, roads, taxes, and daily local life.
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Colden carries creek-valley and hilltown Erie County identity
Colden’s official sources help readers see an Erie County hilltown shaped by Buffum Mills memory, Cazenovia Creek, roads, and town-office layers.
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Hamburg Has Fairgrounds and Fossils
Hamburg's identity combines the Erie County Fairgrounds with Devonian fossil layers around Eighteen Mile Creek and Penn Dixie.
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Orchard Park Has Two Kinds of Sunday Memory
Orchard Park's civic identity contrasts Quaker meetinghouse roots with the Bills stadium name known across the region.
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Boston's Town Hall Sits at the Old Ridge-and-Lake Crossroads
Boston's town story starts with early Johnson-family settlement and a civic center that still reads as a south Erie County hill-town crossroads.
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Boston Keeps Erie County's Hill-Country Memory Close
Boston's local texture comes from early settlement, hill roads, church memory, and old cemeteries south of Buffalo.
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Eden's Kazoo Story Starts As Sheet Metal Work
Eden's local identity includes a working kazoo factory that began with sheet-metal shop craft, not just a quirky roadside stop.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
About $13–$28 per $1,000 in Erie 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 $3,801–$8,277 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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