Dobbs Ferry is a Hudson River village of about 11,600 people in the Town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, roughly 20 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. It has a Metro-North station, a downtown on Main and Cedar Streets, a 10-acre waterfront park, the 76-acre Juhring Nature Preserve and a stretch of the Old Croton Aqueduct trail.

Is Dobbs Ferry a good place to live? It is if what you need is a 38 to 52 minute train to Grand Central, a walkable village center, river access and preserved open space inside 2.42 square miles of land. The trade-offs are cost and one address detail. The single-family median was $1,267,500 in 2025, property taxes run about $29,200 a year per $1 million of assessed value, and nearly one in five parcels in the village is in the Ardsley school district, not Dobbs Ferry’s.

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Sources: US Census Bureau QuickFacts (2020 Census 11,541; July 1, 2025 estimate 11,645; 2020 land area); Village of Dobbs Ferry; Metro-North timetable as of March 29, 2026; Houlihan Lawrence Dobbs Ferry report, August 2026.

Dobbs Ferry is an incorporated village inside the Town of Greenburgh, one of six with Ardsley, Elmsford, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington and Tarrytown. New York’s Department of State states the rule: a village’s area remains part of its town, and its residents remain town taxpayers.

The village runs most daily services: police, fire, public works, recreation, the justice court and the public library, from Village Hall at 112 Main Street. The town assesses property and collects town, county and school taxes.

That split shows in the town rate. Greenburgh charges its general rate only inside villages and a separate unincorporated rate only outside them. For 2026 the rate in Dobbs Ferry is $0.462783 per $1,000 of assessed value, against $5.503765 in unincorporated Greenburgh.

Sources: Town of Greenburgh, Villages in the Town; NYS Department of State, Local Government Handbook; Westchester County, 2026 City/Town Tax Rates; Village of Dobbs Ferry, About the Village.

Dobbs Ferry has 15 weekday AM peak trains to Grand Central. The fastest takes 38 minutes, the median 43 and the slowest 52, on Metro-North’s Hudson Line timetable dated March 29, 2026, counting trains that reach Grand Central between 6 and 10 AM.

The station is in fare Zone 4 with Hastings-on-Hudson, Ardsley-on-Hudson and Irvington. A monthly ticket costs $271.50, a weekly $96.50 and a peak one-way $13.75, at fares effective January 4, 2026. There is no ticket office; the station has two ticket machines, and the MTA’s TrainTime app also sells tickets.

For drivers, the village sells a Resident Commuter Permit for $510 a year, good Monday to Friday, 5 AM to 2 AM, in the Waterfront Parking Lot outside the recreation spaces. Non-residents pay $1,550. The price halves after December 1, and the village states that a permit does not guarantee a space. Permits are sold online or at the Village Clerk’s office.

Sources: Metro-North Hudson Line timetable as of March 29, 2026 (arrivals 6 to 10 AM, Monday to Thursday pattern); MTA fares effective January 4, 2026; MTA Dobbs Ferry station page; Village of Dobbs Ferry, Annual Parking Permit Information, read September 21, 2026. Confirm current permit fees with the Village Clerk.

One-family houses are the largest share of residential parcels in Dobbs Ferry. On the Town of Greenburgh’s 2026 final assessment roll, the village has about 1,800 one-family parcels, 418 parcels classed as apartments, condominiums and co-ops, about 190 two-family parcels and 52 three-family parcels. Each condominium unit is its own parcel; a co-op or rental building counts once.

Styles vary. Brick Underground’s October 2020 piece on the village listed Tudors, Colonials, Capes, midcentury modern houses and apartments in converted warehouses. The Census puts the owner-occupied share of homes at 63.9 percent for 2020 to 2024.

Houlihan Lawrence’s Dobbs Ferry report shows a 2025 single-family median of $1,267,500 on 68 sales, and $1,462,500 on 44 sales for 2026 through August 31. In 2017 it was $868,750. At the end of August 2026 there were nine single-family homes for sale, 1.5 months of inventory. The Westchester County single-family median was $1,240,000 in Q2 2026.

Sources: Town of Greenburgh 2026 Final Assessment Roll, printed September 15, 2026 (our count of parcels by property class); Brick Underground, October 23, 2020; US Census Bureau QuickFacts, 2020 to 2024; Houlihan Lawrence Dobbs Ferry August 2026 report, single-family, OneKey MLS data; Houlihan Lawrence Q2 2026 report, published July 13, 2026.

A Dobbs Ferry home carries six levies on three bills, and school tax is about two-thirds of the total. The village’s 2026-27 budget hearing presentation splits the tax dollar into school 67 percent, village 22 percent, county 8 percent, town 2 percent and library 1 percent.

Assessment runs on one roll. The Town of Greenburgh assesses every property in all six villages at 100 percent of market value, as it has since 2016, and the village taxes on the town’s figure. The 2026 roll reflects value as of July 1, 2025, so a rate per $1,000 of assessed value reads as a rate per $1,000 of market value.

This is an illustration for $1 million of assessed value, not a quote for any house. The village rate fell to $6.4489 from $6.6615 in 2025-26, about 3.2 percent, with the levy inside the state tax cap. The Town of Greenburgh sets the school rate from the district’s levy. The sewer row is a range because 1,842 village parcels are in the North Yonkers district and 1,201 in Saw Mill Valley.

• Village bill. Mailed in late May and collected through June without penalty at 112 Main Street.
• Town and county bill. Billed by the Greenburgh Receiver of Taxes on March 31, due by April 30.
• School bill. Billed August 31. Part 1 is due by September 30 and Part 2 by January 31, with no January reminder.
• Grievance. Greenburgh’s informal online review runs May 15 to June 11; formal grievances close at 9 PM on the third Tuesday of June.
• STAR. A seller’s exemption does not carry over. New owners register with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.

Sources: Town of Greenburgh 2026-2027 School Budgets and Rates, 2026 Town and County rate schedule, 2026 Final Assessment Roll, Tax Payment Schedule and Assessor pages; Village of Dobbs Ferry 2026-27 Adopted Budget (April 28, 2026), budget hearing presentation and tax notice; NYS Department of Taxation and Finance. Per-$1 million figures and the rate change are our arithmetic. This is general information, not tax or legal advice; confirm any property’s bill with the Town of Greenburgh Assessor or a real estate attorney.

Our guide to Westchester County property taxes explains these layers countywide.

The village center runs along Main and Cedar Streets, home to Village Hall (112 Main Street) and the Dobbs Ferry Public Library (55 Main Street). Gould Park and our office are on Ashford Avenue.

The aqueduct is primarily for walking and running, and parts suit biking outside mud season. Francie described it to Brick Underground in October 2020 as “sort of like our own High Line.”

Two campuses carry Dobbs Ferry addresses: Mercy University’s 66-acre main campus at 555 Broadway and The Masters School, an independent school at 49 Clinton Avenue.

Sources: Village of Dobbs Ferry, Parks and Facilities, About the Village, Annual Parking Permit Information and Wayfinding RFP (November 2024); Dobbs Ferry Public Library; NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park; Brick Underground, October 23, 2020; Mercy University; The Masters School. Read September 21, 2026.

Most of the village is in the Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District, but not all of it. On the Town of Greenburgh’s 2026 final roll, 2,464 of the village’s 3,011 parcels are in the Dobbs Ferry district and 547, about 18 percent, are in the Ardsley Union Free School District. The Dobbs Ferry district also crosses the village line: 74 parcels in the Village of Irvington are in it.

• Check the roll or the school tax bill. Both name the district for the parcel.
• Ask the district. Dobbs Ferry’s registrar asks for proof of residency in the district, such as a deed, closing statement or lease, at enrollment.
• Confirm before you sign. Check the specific address, not the street or the listing.

Sources: Town of Greenburgh 2026 Final Assessment Roll, school summaries for the Dobbs Ferry and Irvington sections, printed September 15, 2026; Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District, New Student Registration.

Because the Town of Greenburgh assesses all three villages at 100 percent on one roll, their tax rates compare directly. The table uses the county’s 2025-26 village rates, the latest year published for all three, and the town’s 2026-27 school rates.

Hastings-on-Hudson is the closest match: another Zone 4 Hudson Line village with slightly faster trains (36 minutes fastest, 40 median, against 38 and 43) and a 2026 resident commuter permit of $525 at its Zinsser lot, against Dobbs Ferry’s $510. We compare them in Dobbs Ferry vs. Hastings-on-Hudson.

Ardsley is the inland neighbor, with no river water and a smaller land area, and its school district covers 547 parcels inside Dobbs Ferry. Our ultimate guide to Ardsley covers the village itself.

Sources: US Census Bureau 2025 Gazetteer; Westchester County, 2025/2026 Village Tax Rates; Town of Greenburgh 2026-2027 School Budgets and Rates; Metro-North Hudson Line timetable as of March 29, 2026; Village of Hastings-on-Hudson and Village of Dobbs Ferry parking permit pages.