Tax parcel lookup for the city of Cortland and Central New York's hill country
Cortland County sits in the hill country of Central New York, just north of the Finger Lakes region. The city of Cortland, the county seat, is home to SUNY Cortland, with the rest of the county made up of rural towns and dairy farmland spreading across the surrounding hills.
NY Property Peek's dataset includes over 22,000 individual tax parcels across Cortland 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 Cortland County →NY Property Peek holds 22,662 tax parcel records for Cortland County, spread across 19 towns, cities and villages and 13 school districts. The median Cortland County parcel sits on 0.94 acres, has 1,575 sq ft of finished living space, and dates to 1955. The median full market value on file is $144,330.
Construction dates for the 15,418 Cortland County parcels whose records name a year built.
| Built | Parcels | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Before 1900 | 3,169 | 21% |
| 1900–1949 | 3,825 | 25% |
| 1950–1979 | 4,666 | 30% |
| 1980–1999 | 2,247 | 15% |
| 2000 or later | 1,511 | 10% |
The most common property classes among the 22,575 Cortland 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 | 10,943 | 48% |
| Rural vacant lots of 10 acres or less | 1,430 | 6% |
| Residential vacant land over 10 acres | 1,050 | 5% |
| Two family year-round residence | 932 | 4% |
| Residential vacant land | 827 | 4% |
Where Cortland County's parcels are, by the municipality each one is assessed in.
| Municipality | Parcels | Share of county |
|---|---|---|
| Cortland | 4,985 | 22% |
| Cortlandville | 3,568 | 16% |
| Virgil | 1,769 | 8% |
| Homer | 1,756 | 8% |
| Village of Homer | 1,292 | 6% |
| Preble | 876 | 4% |
| Willet | 853 | 4% |
| Truxton | 810 | 4% |
Every figure above is counted directly from the 22,662 Cortland 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 Assessment records are a snapshot of what each assessor filed, so an individual parcel can be out of date or incomplete.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.