Hudson Valley
Hillsdale, New York
Hillsdale is a town in Columbia County, in New York's Hudson Valley region, home to about 1,800 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
- Columbia
- Region
- Hudson Valley
- Population (2020)
- 1,831
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Hillsdale
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · History & Culture
Hillsdale's East Gate Toll House Remembers the Columbia Turnpike
Hillsdale's East Gate Toll House recalls a rare tollgate tied to the 1799 road between Hudson and Massachusetts.
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Hillsdale's hamlet district counts 82 historic structures
Hillsdale's hamlet district uses the National Register, 82 historic structures, and crossroads identity as a Columbia County anchor.
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Claverack's Name Still Carries Dutch Map Memory
Claverack's local identity starts with a hard-to-say Dutch place name tied to Hudson Valley maps, riverbank forms, and old landscape description.
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Claverack Building Permits Start With the Town Forms
Before building, altering, signing, or seeking a variance in Claverack, start with the town's building, zoning, and planning form pages.
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Claverack Crosses the Creek on Shaw Bridge
Claverack's local identity includes Shaw Bridge, Claverack Creek, old courthouse memory, and a small-town connection to engineering and courts.
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Claverack Has a County-Seat Echo Without the County Seat
Claverack's old courthouse memory, Dutch place name, farms, and creek roads make it a quiet Columbia County history map.
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Ghent keeps a bandstand kind of town memory alive
Ghent Band gives the town a living civic tradition, with free concerts and a local music thread reaching back to 1899.
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Art Omi makes Ghent feel like an open-air arts campus
Art Omi gives Ghent Color through a 120-acre sculpture and architecture park, gallery, residencies, and arts education.
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Old Austerlitz Turns a Town's Buildings Into Working History
Old Austerlitz centers on a historical society site with 18th- and 19th-century buildings, a blacksmith, and town heritage work.
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Roughly $11–$11 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 $3,443–$3,443 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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