Assessing

The Fiscal Year 2023 tax rate is $6.23 per $1,000 of assessed value.

Welcome to the Town of Orleans Assessing site! We've designed these pages with the goal of making as much information as possible regarding our duties available to you in an easily digested form.

Your Assessing office is charged with the following duties:

• Valuing all real and personal property situated in Orleans as of January 1st
• Administering the motor vehicle and boat excise taxes
• Administering all statutory and discretionary tax exemption programs
• Serving as a U.S. Passport Acceptance facility

Curious what your property's assessment is? Visit the town's online assessment database.

If you're filing your income tax return and curious how much you paid in property taxes last year, our Treasurer/Collector has you sorted! Click here to see what you paid for real estate, and click here for personal property taxes.

Want to know what properties have sold in town? View the last 15 years' worth of property sales, offered in PDF and Excel formats.

If you're interested in seeing town maps, we encourage you to visit our Online GIS page and tinker around with the different layers; there's a wealth of information to be had. If you'd like to view the most recent set of cadastral tax maps for Orleans, view the Tax Map Book (PDF).

Assessments & Taxes in Orleans

• Average Residential Assessed Value (FY2023): $1,023,000 (25% increase)
• Average Residential Tax Bill (Fiscal Year 2023): $6,304 (7.9% increase)
• Median Household Income: $77,273 (2020 ACS 5-Year Survey)

Please visit the Assessment Reports page to view our data sets and read the full reports.