Property Tax in Southampton, Bridgehampton & Sagaponack
This combined page covers three separate places on Long Island's South Fork, inside the Town of Southampton, Suffolk County, New York: Southampton Village, incorporated in 1894; Bridgehampton, an unincorporated hamlet with no village government of its own; and Sagaponack, incorporated as its own village only in September 2005. That is not a footnote. New York builds property tax bills out of layered school district, town, and county levies rather than one statewide rate, and whether a parcel also sits inside an incorporated village government, one that runs its own board and budget, or inside an unincorporated hamlet answered only by the town, is part of how that bill gets assessed and administered. This page does not state a current property tax rate, assessed value, or tax bill for Southampton Village, Bridgehampton, or Sagaponack, because no such figure was independently confirmed during research, and because the honest answer changes by school district, by budget cycle, and by exactly which of these three places a given address sits in.
Southampton Village: New York's Oldest English Settlement, Incorporated Since 1894
Southampton Village traces to 1640, when English colonists from Lynn, Massachusetts landed at Conscience Point on June 12; the village's own government describes it as the oldest English settlement in the state of New York, older even than East Hampton Village's 1648 founding. The Shinnecock tribe assisted those early settlers with agricultural techniques and land access. The village became a premier summer resort community starting around 1863, and it was formally incorporated in 1894, meaning it has run its own village government, layered on top of Town of Southampton and Suffolk County obligations, for well over a century.
Southampton Village covers 7.2 square miles (6.4 land, 0.81 water) and borders both the Shinnecock Indian Reservation and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. Its 2020 census population was 4,550, a 46.3 percent increase from 2010, up from a 2017 estimate of 3,193 and a 2000 census count of 3,965. As of that 2017 estimate, the village was 74.5 percent White, 16.7 percent Black, 3.6 percent Asian, and 4.4 percent other races, with 22.5 percent identifying as Hispanic or Latino; median age was 55.2, median household income was $96,250, and 22 percent of families earned over $200,000. William "Bill" Manger Jr. was serving as mayor as of July 2023. Roughly half of the Hamptons' billionaire residents are said to live here, and Meadow Lane has earned the nickname "Billionaire Lane"; historical residents have included the Ford, Du Pont, Morgan, Vanderbilt, and Eisenhower families, alongside contemporary residents such as George Soros, Calvin Klein, Michael J. Fox, Brooke Shields, Tory Burch, Howard Stern, and Steven Mnuchin. The village is also home to Shinnecock Golf Club, the Meadow Club, the Southampton Beach Club, and the Parrish Art Museum, and Cooper's Beach has been ranked the third-best beach in the country. A tax base built on that kind of institutional and estate density, inside a village that has run its own government since 1894, is a genuinely different fiscal picture than an unincorporated hamlet next door, which is exactly why this page treats Southampton Village on its own terms rather than folding it into a single Hamptons average.
Bridgehampton: An Unincorporated Hamlet With No Separate Village Government
Bridgehampton was settled shortly after Southampton's 1640 founding as colonists moved eastward. It was originally called "Bullhead" before being renamed for a bridge built across a pond, the Sagg Bridge, constructed in 1686 by Ezekiel Sandford, connecting Mecox and Sagaponack. Unlike Southampton Village or Sagaponack Village, Bridgehampton has never incorporated as its own municipality; it remains an unincorporated hamlet inside the Town of Southampton, which means there is no separate Bridgehampton village board, budget, or village-level tax levy sitting between a property owner and the town and county layers. That structural difference, not just a difference in scenery, is part of why a tax bill discussion for Bridgehampton cannot simply borrow a village's framework.
Bridgehampton's census-designated place covers 13.6 square miles (13.0 land, 0.62 water), with a 2020 census population of 2,953, a median age of 47.2, and a gender ratio of 98.6 males per 100 females. The hamlet is 68.6 percent urban and 31.4 percent rural, with 1,136 households, 50.5 percent of them married-couple households, and 2,632 housing units, of which 56.8 percent are vacant, a figure that reflects a highly seasonal community of second homes rather than a typical year-round housing stock. Bridgehampton is home to the Hampton Classic horse show and was once home to the Bridgehampton Race Circuit, a 2.85-mile road-racing course now converted into a golf course and homes; it also contained the last full-size Kmart on the mainland United States, which closed on October 20, 2024. Criminal-turned-memoirist Stephen Burroughs lived in Bridgehampton in the 1700s and helped found the town's first library in 1793, and notable residents have included Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, MLB catcher A.J. Pierzynski, business executive Lloyd Blankfein, CNBC presenter Carl Quintanilla, and Brigadier General Isaac Sandford. A hamlet with that much second-home vacancy and no village government of its own is worth understanding as its own case, not as an unincorporated stand-in for its two incorporated neighbors.
Sagaponack: New York's Newest Incorporated Village, and Its Priciest ZIP Code
Sagaponack was first settled around 1653, with Josiah Stanborough recorded there by 1656, and was originally named "Sagg." It remained unincorporated for more than three centuries until it became its own separate village on September 2, 2005, making it one of New York's newest incorporated villages. That incorporation was not a routine formality: it happened specifically to prevent a proposed rival incorporation called Dunehampton from controlling beach access. That dispute is resolved history rather than an open question, Sagaponack incorporated, and Dunehampton did not proceed as a competing village, but the fact that Sagaponack's village government is barely two decades old, while Southampton Village's dates to 1894, is a real structural difference between two otherwise neighboring incorporated villages, and it can matter for how each administers its own affairs. The village's name, incidentally, derives from a Shinnecock word meaning "land of the big ground nuts," a reference to Apios americana, a wild tuber, not to potatoes as is commonly and incorrectly assumed.
Sagaponack Village today covers 4.7 square miles (4.4 land, 0.23 water), notably smaller than the roughly 8.0 square miles of the pre-incorporation census-designated place, a reminder that incorporation redrew the map rather than simply renaming it. The 2020 census recorded 770 residents, up from 582 in the 2000 census when it was still an unincorporated CDP; dated 2000-era figures put median age at 46, with 18.2 percent of the population 65 or older, median household income at $54,048, and per capita income at $44,474, numbers that are useful only as historical context, not as anything current. What is far better known about Sagaponack today is its ZIP code, 11962, which has ranked as the most expensive ZIP code in the United States in multiple years, including 2009 and 2018, when the median home price reached $8.5 million, up from a 2015 median of $5,125,000; at least one source has called it the second-wealthiest ZIP code in the country. Ira Rennert's estate there has been described as the largest home in America, with 29 bedrooms, and the village still operates one of the last remaining active one-room schoolhouses in New York State, the Sagaponack School, serving grades K through 3. Notable residents have included cartoonist Charles Addams, authors Truman Capote and Kurt Vonnegut, musician Billy Joel, television host Jimmy Fallon, and business leader Lloyd Blankfein, and the Elizabeth Reese House, designed by architect Andrew Geller, is a recognized piece of the village's architectural history.
How New York Actually Layers a Property Tax Bill
New York does not set one statewide property tax rate. A typical bill is built from a school district levy, a town levy, and a Suffolk County levy, and where a property also sits inside an incorporated village, Southampton Village or Sagaponack Village, that village government can add its own layer on top, while a property in unincorporated Bridgehampton answers only to the town and county layers plus whichever school district it falls in. The school district portion is often the largest single piece of a Long Island tax bill, and because school district boundaries do not necessarily line up neatly with village or hamlet lines, two properties a short walk apart, one in Southampton Village and one just outside it, can sit in different school districts entirely. None of this is a Southampton-specific invention; it is simply how New York structures property tax administration, and it is a genuinely different system from a flat or single statewide rate, so nothing quoted for a different state, or even a different Long Island town, should be assumed to carry over here.
This page will not state a specific current property tax rate, assessed value, or tax bill for Southampton Village, Bridgehampton, or Sagaponack Village, because no such figure was independently confirmed during research. Assessment practices, exemptions, and how school, town, county, and (where applicable) village levies combine all shift from one budget cycle to the next, and the fact that these three places carry three different governance statuses, a village incorporated in 1894, an unincorporated hamlet with no village government, and a village incorporated in 2005, means a single number could never honestly describe all three anyway.
What to Verify Before Budgeting a Purchase
What is confirmed here: Southampton Village was settled in 1640 at Conscience Point and describes itself as New York's oldest English settlement, incorporating as a village in 1894; Bridgehampton has been an unincorporated hamlet since its founding shortly after 1640, with no separate village government, and was home to a road-racing circuit and, until October 2024, the last full-size Kmart on the mainland United States; and Sagaponack, settled around 1653, did not incorporate as its own village until September 2, 2005, a step taken specifically to keep a rival Dunehampton incorporation from controlling beach access, and its 11962 ZIP code has repeatedly ranked as the most expensive in the country.
What this page will not do is invent a current Southampton Village, Bridgehampton, or Sagaponack Village property tax rate, assessed value, or tax bill, or guess at how a school district, town, county, or village levy applies to any specific parcel, because none of that was independently confirmed during this research pass. Get the actual current numbers directly from the Town of Southampton Assessor's office, the relevant village clerk where one exists, Suffolk County, the applicable school district, and a real estate attorney or accountant familiar with the South Fork before making an offer. Nothing on this page is legal, tax, or financial advice.
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Get a Free Agent Referral →Independent research. No ads. No sponsored listings. Data drawn from research on Southampton Village, the unincorporated hamlet of Bridgehampton, and Sagaponack Village, all within the Town of Southampton, Suffolk County, New York. Southampton Village was settled in 1640 by English colonists from Lynn, Massachusetts who landed at Conscience Point on June 12, is described by its own village government as the oldest English settlement in the state of New York, was assisted early on by the Shinnecock tribe, became a premier summer resort starting around 1863, and incorporated as a village in 1894; it covers 7.2 square miles, recorded a 2020 census population of 4,550 (46.3 percent up from 2010; 2017 estimate 3,193; 2000 census 3,965), had 2017 demographics of 74.5 percent White, 16.7 percent Black, 3.6 percent Asian, 4.4 percent other races, and 22.5 percent Hispanic/Latino, with median age 55.2, median household income $96,250, and 22 percent of families earning over $200,000; William "Bill" Manger Jr. was mayor as of July 2023; notable residents/institutions include Meadow Lane ("Billionaire Lane"), the Ford/Du Pont/Morgan/Vanderbilt/Eisenhower families historically and George Soros, Calvin Klein, Michael J. Fox, Brooke Shields, Tory Burch, Howard Stern, and Steven Mnuchin currently, plus Shinnecock Golf Club, the Meadow Club, Southampton Beach Club, the Parrish Art Museum, and Cooper's Beach (ranked America's third-best beach by the cited source). Bridgehampton was settled shortly after 1640, originally called "Bullhead," renamed for the Sagg Bridge (built 1686 by Ezekiel Sandford, connecting Mecox and Sagaponack), and has never incorporated as its own village; its CDP covers 13.6 square miles, recorded a 2020 census population of 2,953, median age 47.2, gender ratio 98.6 males per 100 females, 68.6 percent urban/31.4 percent rural, 1,136 households (50.5 percent married-couple), and 2,632 housing units (56.8 percent vacant); it is home to the Hampton Classic horse show and the former Bridgehampton Race Circuit (a 2.85-mile road course, now a golf course and homes), contained the last full-size Kmart on the mainland U.S. (closed October 20, 2024), and counts Stephen Burroughs (who helped found the town's first library in 1793), Carl Yastrzemski, A.J. Pierzynski, Lloyd Blankfein, Carl Quintanilla, and Brigadier General Isaac Sandford among notable residents. Sagaponack was first settled around 1653 (Josiah Stanborough by 1656), originally named "Sagg," a name deriving from a Shinnecock word meaning "land of the big ground nuts" (Apios americana, not potatoes), and did not incorporate as its own village until September 2, 2005, specifically to prevent a rival Dunehampton incorporation from controlling beach access, a resolved dispute; the incorporated village covers 4.7 square miles versus roughly 8.0 square miles as the pre-incorporation CDP, recorded a 2020 census population of 770 (2000 CDP: 582), and dated 2000-era figures show median age 46, 18.2 percent age 65+, median household income $54,048, and per capita income $44,474; its 11962 ZIP code has ranked the most expensive in the U.S. in multiple years including 2009 and 2018 (2018 median home price $8.5 million; 2015 median $5,125,000, described by at least one source as the second-wealthiest ZIP code in the country), Ira Rennert's estate there is described as the largest home in America (29 bedrooms), it operates one of the last active one-room schoolhouses in New York State (Sagaponack School, grades K-3), notable residents include Charles Addams, Truman Capote, Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Joel, Jimmy Fallon, and Lloyd Blankfein, and the Elizabeth Reese House (architect Andrew Geller) is a noted local landmark. No confirmed current Southampton Village, Bridgehampton, or Sagaponack Village property tax rate, assessed-value figure, or tax bill was independently confirmed during this research pass, and none is invented here; New York's school-district, town, county, and (where an incorporated village exists) village property tax structure is treated as genuinely different across these three places rather than assumed to be identical or to carry over from any other town or state. Confirm current numbers directly with the Town of Southampton Assessor's office, the relevant village clerk where applicable, Suffolk County, the applicable school district, and a licensed real estate attorney and accountant before making any purchase decision. Nothing on this page is legal, tax, or financial advice.