Who Runs NYThe votes, the money, and the taxes — Rae AroraEvery town on Long Island, on the same page, in dollars and in dollars per resident. The baseline is the FY2026 adopted budget. Population is the U.S. Census Vintage 2025 estimate for July 1, 2025 (2,880,618 people in the 13 towns; 2,273,795 of them outside villages). A 2027 column is shown only where the town has posted an adopted, preliminary, or tentative book.
Spending figures are adopted budgets, not checks that have cleared. Nassau assesses property at the county, so Hempstead, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay show a town assessor of $0. The eight western towns do not pay for police inside the town budget. That bill is on the county police-district tax. The five East End towns, plus Glen Cove and Long Beach, pay for their own police department inside the municipal budget.
Click any column to sort. The top row is the total and the population-weighted average for the towns on screen. A dash means the book does not print that line. Hover, or read the note under the dash.