Tax parcel lookup for Buffalo and the towns of Western New York
Erie County sits at the western edge of New York State on the shore of Lake Erie, anchored by Buffalo, the state's second-largest city. Beyond Buffalo itself, the county includes suburban and rural towns stretching from the Niagara River south to the Southern Tier foothills — places like Amherst, Cheektowaga, West Seneca, Hamburg, and Orchard Park.
NY Property Peek's dataset includes over 370,000 individual tax parcels across Erie 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 Erie County →NY Property Peek holds 370,424 tax parcel records for Erie County, spread across 44 towns, cities and villages and 32 school districts. The median Erie County parcel sits on 0.20 acres, has 1,642 sq ft of finished living space, and dates to 1954. The median full market value on file is $238,800.
Construction dates for the 319,925 Erie County parcels whose records name a year built.
| Built | Parcels | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Before 1900 | 15,385 | 5% |
| 1900–1949 | 113,718 | 36% |
| 1950–1979 | 124,526 | 39% |
| 1980–1999 | 39,179 | 12% |
| 2000 or later | 27,117 | 8% |
The most common property classes among the 368,901 Erie 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 | 241,535 | 65% |
| Two family year-round residence | 41,365 | 11% |
| Residential vacant land | 28,019 | 8% |
| Apartments | 7,592 | 2% |
| Vacant land located in commercial areas | 4,452 | 1% |
Where Erie County's parcels are, by the municipality each one is assessed in.
| Municipality | Parcels | Share of county |
|---|---|---|
| Buffalo | 93,440 | 25% |
| Amherst | 41,811 | 11% |
| Cheektowaga | 29,839 | 8% |
| Town of Tonawanda | 23,161 | 6% |
| Hamburg | 21,024 | 6% |
| West Seneca | 19,325 | 5% |
| Clarence | 13,859 | 4% |
| Lancaster | 12,156 | 3% |
Every figure above is counted directly from the 370,424 Erie 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 Assessment records are a snapshot of what each assessor filed, so an individual parcel can be out of date or incomplete.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.