Westchester • New York
Rye
Real Estate. Where Westchester Meets the Sound
About Rye
Rye is a small city on Long Island Sound that has been a place in its own right since 1660, and it still behaves like one: its own mayor, its own police, its own school district, and a Main Street that predates almost everything around it. What separates it physically from the North Shore towns across the water is the ground itself: this is Westchester, so the shoreline is exposed bedrock and tidal marsh rather than sand and bulkhead, and the land has shape to it. Milton Harbor and the Blind Brook marshes wrap the southern edge, the old summer estates sit on the points, and the New Haven Line puts Grand Central inside forty minutes. It is the rare address where a genuinely coastal setting and a genuinely fast commute are not a trade-off.
Finding a residence in Rye
We search Rye on your behalf
We are not publishing our own listings here at present, and we would rather say so than fill the page. What we do instead is the more useful half: we search across public listings, professional member systems, broker relationships, and direct outreach. Non-public opportunities are subject to seller authorization and availability.
Tell us what you are looking for in Rye and you will hear from us within 24 hours.
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Thinking seriously about Rye?
Tell us what the residence has to make possible, and we will tell you honestly whether it exists here at the price you have in mind — and what it would take if it does not.
What Sells in Rye
Once a month we send the closed sales in Rye, measured rather than estimated, with a few practical notes on the house and one thing worth knowing if you are thinking of moving.
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A Rye home assessed at $1,000,000 carries
$15,487
a year, an effective rate of 1.55% of market value
- School
- $9,587
- County
- $3,200
- Town
- $2,700
Rates are levied per $1,000 of full market value and shown here against the Rye school district. This figure does not include special districts (fire, water, library, sanitation, ambulance); STAR, veterans, senior and other exemptions. We pull the actual bill for any specific parcel before you go to contract.
Fiscal year 2025 · NYS ORPTS real property tax rates (FY2025), Socrata iq85-sdzs
The window to challenge your assessment is short, and it is the same every year
- The window to challenge your assessment opens in June
- In Westchester the tentative roll is published on June 1 and the filing period runs to Grievance Day, the third Tuesday in June, which is Tuesday, June 15, 2027. The grievance is filed with the City of Rye Assessor, and the date does not move. Filing costs nothing, and the case is made with what comparable houses actually sold for.
Filing dates are set by statute and computed from the rule rather than quoted from a past year. Confirm the current date with the assessor before you rely on it.
Within 2 miles of Rye, the FEMA-mapped area in a high-risk zone is
1.6%
of mapped area, meaning Zone A or V, where a federally backed mortgage requires flood insurance
- Zone X
- 91.3%
- Zone VE
- 0.8%
- Zone AE
- 0.7%
- Zone A
- 0.1%
Moderate to minimal
High risk (A/V)
High risk (A/V)
High risk (A/V)
This figure does not represent the share of homes or parcels at risk in Rye — only the share of FEMA-mapped area within a 2-mile radius of the town's page coordinates, not a property count or a town-wide figure; the flood zone of any single address, which must be confirmed against its own FIRM panel before pricing insurance; 7.1% open water within that radius — it counts toward the total this percentage is measured against and lowers it mechanically, not because the shoreline itself is lower risk.
Queried August 2026 · FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL), MapServer layer 28 — public, unauthenticated
Rye is served by the
Rye City School District
- Enrollment
- 2,827
- Schools
- 5
- 4-Year Graduation
- 99%
Rye City School District serves the City of Rye and is not the only district with "Rye" in its name — Rye Neck, Blind Brook-Rye and Port Chester-Rye serve neighbouring places, and a Rye mailing address does not by itself decide which one a parcel is in. Confirm the district before pricing on it.
Per-pupil expenditure is not published in a form we can verify, so we do not show a figure for it.
BEDS Day enrollment 2024; graduation rate reported 2022-23 · NYSED BEDS Day enrollment file and graduation-rate/outcomes file (bulk data, data.nysed.gov)
Rye, as the Census Bureau measures it
| Figure | Rye | Westchester County |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $1,785,400 | $638,400 |
| Median gross rent | $2,751 | $1,876 |
| Median year built | 1957 | 1958 |
| Housing units | 6,151 | 391,861 |
| Owner-occupied | 71% | 62% |
| Median rooms | 7.6 | 5.2 |
| Median household income | $237,727 | $118,411 |
| Workers commuting | 5,342 | 401,629 |
These figures describe the housing, not the people who live in it, and we publish them as the Bureau measured them without interpreting them. Its own profile for Rye city, New York carries considerably more.
US Census Bureau · American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates · Rye city, New York and Westchester County, New York
Getting to Rye
- Metro-North
- Rye is on Metro-North’s New Haven Line, not the LIRR. Express trains reach Grand Central in about 38 minutes and locals in around 50, with the station in the middle of the city rather than out on its edge, one of the reasons the walkable blocks around it hold their premium.
- By Car
- I-95 and the Hutchinson River Parkway both run through the city; Midtown is roughly 45 minutes off-peak and considerably more at rush hour. The Parkway is usually the better of the two into Manhattan.
Watch what your home is worth
Once a month we send where your home in Rye stands, drawn from recorded sales nearby rather than an algorithm's guess, with the range and the sample behind it. No listing, no call, and nothing public. A person is one reply away when you want one.
Local expertise, brought to Rye
Anthony Clemenza leads Park & Palm's representation in Rye, advising buyers and sellers on positioning, pricing, and the channels through which a residence here actually reaches the market. Anthony holds an active brokerage license in New York.
