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Long Island Property Tax
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What will you actually pay in property tax?

Type any Long Island address. We price the bill line by line from the 2025 Nassau and Suffolk assessment rolls, and show what changes when the seller’s exemptions come off.

Try Mineola Garden City Levittown Manhasset Jericho Smithtown East Setauket
Anatomy of a bill Where $12,019 goes on a single-family home in Mineola
NASSAU SUFFOLK MINEOLA
  • Mineola schools $7,857 65%
  • Town of North Hempstead $154 1%
  • Nassau County $1,769 15%
  • County sewer district (Disposal Only) $352 3%
  • Village $1,887 16%
  • Total bill $12,019

Estimate from the 2025 roll. Assessor’s value $542,000. See the full bill

Median bill
$13,262
Median tax bill across Long Island’s 121 school districts.
The spread
5.6×
The gap between the cheapest district’s median bill ($6,186) and the most expensive ($34,463).
Homes priced
847,826
Homes on the 2025 Nassau and Suffolk assessment rolls.
Schools’ share
60–70%
Of a typical bill goes to the local school district.
School districts

The school district matters more than the town

Schools take 60–70% of every bill, so the district you buy into sets your taxes far more than the town on your mailing address. Median bills run from $6,186 to $34,463 a year.

All 121 districts, ranked
  1. 1 Cold Spring HarborSuffolk County Suffolk $34,463
  2. 2 East WillistonNassau County Nassau $25,090
  3. 3 RoslynNassau County Nassau $24,980
  4. 4 JerichoNassau County Nassau $24,199
  5. 5 Garden CityNassau County Nassau $23,390
  6. 6 Rockville CentreNassau County Nassau $23,275
  7. 7 SyossetNassau County Nassau $22,763
  8. 8 ManhassetNassau County Nassau $22,617
  9. 9 Great NeckNassau County Nassau $21,467
  10. 10 Port WashingtonNassau County Nassau $21,214

Long Island median, $13,262Median bills, 2025 roll.

What you get

Every bill, itemized like the one in your mailbox

Look up an address to see the school, county and town lines, how the assessment compares with the neighbors, and what a buyer would pay once the current owner’s exemptions come off.

  1. The bill, line by line. School, town, county, village and special districts.
  2. Against the neighbors. Is the assessment in line with the rest of the ZIP?
  3. After a sale. STAR, senior and veteran exemptions don’t transfer to a buyer.
Estimated annual bill · 2025 roll Mineola schools

A single-family home in Mineola · Town of North Hempstead · Nassau

$12,019 a year · $1,002 a month

Expect the real bill to land between $11,730 and $12,310.

  • Mineola schools $7,857
  • Town of North Hempstead $154
  • Nassau County $1,769
  • County sewer district (Disposal Only) $352
  • Village $1,887
Assessor’s value
$542,000
Est. market value
$827,634
vs. ZIP 11501
In line
If you bought it today No owner exemptions on file here, so a buyer’s bill starts about the same.
about $12,019/yr
The fundamentals

Why Long Island taxes are among the highest in the country

  1. $39.7k

    School spending per pupil

    Long Island districts spent an average of $39,653 per pupil in 2024–25, the highest in the state and roughly twice the national average. Schools are 60–70% of the bill, so this is the single biggest driver.

  2. 700+

    Overlapping taxing districts

    On top of county and town, most neighborhoods have their own fire, library, water, sewer, sanitation, lighting and ambulance districts. Each one levies separately.

  3. $13,262

    A typical Long Island bill

    Higher than the median in every state, including New Jersey ($9,358) and Illinois ($5,399). The U.S. average single-family bill is roughly $4,400.

Why Long Island taxes are so high

From the locals

Real homeowners, real bills

Quotes from public r/longisland threads about property tax, unedited and linked to the original discussion.

$8.7k → $10k+

“Paying $8,700 after STAR credit on a small 1,100 sq ft ranch in East Meadow. Value about $600k. Next door neighbor, because he’s grieved every year for the last 20, is paying $6,500. Other slightly bigger houses on the same street are paying $10,000 or more because they don’t grieve every year.”
East Meadow homeowner, r/longisland

$11k → $16k

“My taxes are $11k but I pay $16k for a sub-million-dollar home on the north shore. Long Island has great schools but the taxes are so high because of administration.”
North Shore homeowner, r/longisland

$6k → $14k

“When my property taxes were $6,000, a 3% increase was manageable. Now that they’ve climbed to $14,000, that same percentage translates into a much more substantial burden.”
Suffolk County homeowner, r/longisland

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