Central New York
Preble, New York
Preble is a town in Cortland County, in New York's Central New York region, home to about 1,400 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
- Cortland
- Region
- Central New York
- Population (2020)
- 1,357
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Preble
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
Nearby · Home & Property
Cortlandville Permits Start With the Building Code Office
Cortlandville owners should check the Building Code Department before residential, commercial, solar, accessory, or highway-adjacent work moves forward.
Read this note ->Nearby · Home & Property
Cortland County Beacon Is a Parcel Starting Point
Cortland County's Beacon and Real Property pages help Homer and Cortlandville owners check parcel, assessment, sale, and property details before asking bigger questions.
Read this note ->Nearby · History & Culture
Homer's Green Keeps the Town Readable
Homer's identity gathers along the Tioughnioga River, a 1791 settlement story, Main Street, and a village green ringed by historic buildings.
Read this note ->Nearby · The Outdoors
Cortlandville's Lime Hollow Makes the Town a Preserve Landscape
Lime Hollow gives Cortlandville a concrete landscape identity through glacial, wetland, and preserve work near the city edge.
Read this note ->Nearby · The Outdoors
Highland Forest Makes Fabius Feel Like the Upland Side of Onondaga County
Highland Forest gives Fabius a hill-country identity through county parkland, trails, winter use, views, and a forested public edge.
Read this note ->Nearby · The Outdoors
Otisco Reads Through a Smaller Finger Lake
Otisco Lake gives the Town of Otisco a distinct Finger Lakes identity on the southern edge of Onondaga County.
Read this note ->Nearby · The Outdoors
Tully Lake Sits on a Glacial Water Divide
Tully's local outdoors story is a kettlehole-lake landscape where ice fishing, aquifers, and a watershed divide meet.
Read this note ->Nearby · Rules & Licenses
Labrador Hollow’s Boardwalk and Pond Come With Zone Rules
DEC separates Labrador Hollow access from its use limits, including motorboat, camping, fire, and hunting-zone rules.
Read this note ->Nearby · The Outdoors
Morgan Hill’s Spruce Pond Has Its Own Camping Rule Set
DEC says Spruce Pond camping in Morgan Hill State Forest has seasonal permit rules and site-specific limits.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $25–$27 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 $7,535–$8,209 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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