Hudson Valley
Pleasant Valley, New York
Pleasant Valley is a town in Dutchess County, in New York's Hudson Valley region, home to about 9,800 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
- Dutchess
- Region
- Hudson Valley
- Population (2020)
- 9,799
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Pleasant Valley
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · History & Culture
Pleasant Valley's Hamlet Story Runs on Wappingers Creek
Pleasant Valley's local texture reaches from the old Charlotte hamlet name to churches, mills, roads, and Wappingers Creek water power.
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Hyde Park Layers the Hudson With Estates and Food
Hyde Park's town landscape holds FDR, Vanderbilt, and culinary education along a compact Hudson River history corridor.
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LaGrange Keeps a Schoolhouse
LaGrange's Little Red Schoolhouse ties Freedom Plains, local collections, and town historian work to everyday civic memory.
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Clinton in Dutchess Is a Seven-Hamlet Town With Quaker Memory
Clinton town identity comes from George Clinton naming, seven hamlets, Quaker-built Upton Lake Grange, and a rural Dutchess setting.
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Washington Dutchess moved tax payments out of town clerk hands after June 2
A Washington Dutchess explainer notes the town clerk's records and license role, while flagging the 2026 notice sending property tax payments to Dutchess County Real Property.
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Clinton Dutchess is a town of hamlets and Quaker traces
Clinton's official history gives the town a map of hamlets, old precincts, and Quaker-linked buildings rather than one downtown center.
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Staatsburgh makes Hyde Park's river estate story less one-note
Staatsburgh adds a Gilded Age Hudson estate layer to Hyde Park, with Mills family history, river views, and Catskill-facing grounds.
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Washington town tax payments can move after the local window
Town of Washington taxpayers should check the tax collector notice before trying to pay locally after the town collection window closes.
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Clinton building questions should start before the contractor starts
Town of Clinton owners should check the building department route before additions, repairs, or land-use work become expensive to unwind.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $16–$24 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 $4,746–$7,053 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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