Tax parcel lookup for Elmira and the Chemung River valley
Chemung County sits along the Chemung River in the Southern Tier, just north of the Pennsylvania border. Elmira, the county seat, is known as the longtime home and burial place of Mark Twain, along with a strong regional history in soaring and gliding thanks to favorable ridge winds nearby.
NY Property Peek's dataset includes over 39,000 individual tax parcels across Chemung 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 Chemung County →NY Property Peek holds 39,390 tax parcel records for Chemung County, spread across 16 towns, cities and villages and 9 school districts. The median Chemung County parcel sits on 0.37 acres, has 1,539 sq ft of finished living space, and dates to 1950. The median full market value on file is $112,500.
Construction dates for the 30,476 Chemung County parcels whose records name a year built.
| Built | Parcels | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Before 1900 | 2,840 | 9% |
| 1900–1949 | 11,844 | 39% |
| 1950–1979 | 11,530 | 38% |
| 1980–1999 | 2,499 | 8% |
| 2000 or later | 1,763 | 6% |
The most common property classes among the 39,301 Chemung 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 | 23,876 | 61% |
| Residential vacant land | 2,781 | 7% |
| Two family year-round residence | 2,024 | 5% |
| Rural residence with acreage | 1,542 | 4% |
| Residential vacant land over 10 acres | 1,319 | 3% |
Where Chemung County's parcels are, by the municipality each one is assessed in.
| Municipality | Parcels | Share of county |
|---|---|---|
| City of Elmira | 9,536 | 24% |
| Southport | 5,261 | 13% |
| Horseheads | 4,637 | 12% |
| Big Flats | 3,943 | 10% |
| Town of Elmira | 3,130 | 8% |
| Village of Horseheads | 2,520 | 6% |
| Elmira Heights | 1,826 | 5% |
| Veteran | 1,666 | 4% |
Every figure above is counted directly from the 39,390 Chemung 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 Assessment records are a snapshot of what each assessor filed, so an individual parcel can be out of date or incomplete.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.