Tax parcel lookup for New York's southwestern corner, on Lake Erie
Chautauqua County occupies the far southwestern corner of New York State, bordering both Pennsylvania and Lake Erie. It's home to the Chautauqua Institution, a historic summer education and arts community on Chautauqua Lake, along with the cities of Jamestown and Dunkirk and long stretches of Lake Erie shoreline and vineyard country.
NY Property Peek's dataset includes over 88,000 individual tax parcels across Chautauqua County, each with details like year built, square footage, bedroom and bathroom counts, and school district where available — pulled from New York State's statewide tax parcel records.
View the interactive map for Chautauqua County →NY Property Peek holds 88,396 tax parcel records for Chautauqua County, spread across 41 towns, cities and villages and 20 school districts. The median Chautauqua County parcel sits on 0.42 acres, has 1,550 sq ft of finished living space, and dates to 1940. The median full market value on file is $89,773.
Construction dates for the 53,057 Chautauqua County parcels whose records name a year built.
| Built | Parcels | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Before 1900 | 6,596 | 12% |
| 1900–1949 | 22,564 | 43% |
| 1950–1979 | 13,837 | 26% |
| 1980–1999 | 6,014 | 11% |
| 2000 or later | 4,046 | 8% |
The most common property classes among the 87,997 Chautauqua County parcels that carry one. New York State assigns every parcel a class code describing how it is used.
| Property class | Parcels | Share |
|---|---|---|
| One family year-round residence | 38,269 | 43% |
| Residential vacant land | 15,003 | 17% |
| Residential land including a small improvement (not used for living accommodations) | 3,600 | 4% |
| Two family year-round residence | 3,494 | 4% |
| Rural residence with acreage | 3,147 | 4% |
Where Chautauqua County's parcels are, by the municipality each one is assessed in.
| Municipality | Parcels | Share of county |
|---|---|---|
| Jamestown | 14,405 | 16% |
| Dunkirk | 6,997 | 8% |
| Chautauqua | 4,978 | 6% |
| Ellicott | 4,308 | 5% |
| Hanover | 3,588 | 4% |
| Busti | 3,561 | 4% |
| Ellery | 3,552 | 4% |
| Fredonia | 3,473 | 4% |
Every figure above is counted directly from the 88,396 Chautauqua County records in this site's copy of New York State's statewide tax parcel dataset — none of it is estimated or modelled. Assessment records are a snapshot of what each assessor filed, so an individual parcel can be out of date or incomplete. Nothing here is a title search or a legal description of a property.