Tax parcel lookup for the Adirondack High Peaks and Lake Placid
Essex County sits in the heart of the Adirondacks, home to the High Peaks region and Lake Placid — host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. The county seat, Elizabethtown, sits among small mountain towns spread across a landscape dominated by Adirondack Park's forests, lakes, and 46 highest peaks.
NY Property Peek's dataset includes over 37,000 individual tax parcels across Essex 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 Essex County →NY Property Peek holds 37,213 tax parcel records for Essex County, spread across 20 towns, cities and villages and 14 school districts. The median Essex County parcel sits on 1.29 acres, has 1,464 sq ft of finished living space, and dates to 1967. The median full market value on file is $165,200.
Construction dates for the 22,566 Essex County parcels whose records name a year built.
| Built | Parcels | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Before 1900 | 2,343 | 10% |
| 1900–1949 | 6,261 | 28% |
| 1950–1979 | 5,127 | 23% |
| 1980–1999 | 3,951 | 18% |
| 2000 or later | 4,884 | 22% |
The most common property classes among the 37,213 Essex 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 | 15,395 | 41% |
| Residential vacant land | 3,955 | 11% |
| State-owned land (forest Preserve) in the Adirondack or Catskill Parks taxable under Section 532-a of the Real Property Tax Law | 2,490 | 7% |
| Seasonal residences | 2,026 | 5% |
| Rural residence with acreage | 1,857 | 5% |
Where Essex County's parcels are, by the municipality each one is assessed in.
| Municipality | Parcels | Share of county |
|---|---|---|
| North Elba | 4,015 | 11% |
| Schroon | 3,657 | 10% |
| Ticonderoga | 3,316 | 9% |
| Moriah | 2,861 | 8% |
| Jay | 2,680 | 7% |
| Willsboro | 2,197 | 6% |
| Chesterfield | 2,120 | 6% |
| Keene | 1,856 | 5% |
Every figure above is counted directly from the 37,213 Essex 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 Assessment records are a snapshot of what each assessor filed, so an individual parcel can be out of date or incomplete.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.