Henrietta

Henrietta sits on the south side of Monroe County and covers 35.3 square miles of land, which makes it one of the larger towns in the county by area. The 2020 Census counted 47,096 residents and 17,856 housing units, and the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 estimate puts the population at 48,832 as of July 1, 2025. The town borders six other Monroe County towns: Brighton, Chili, Mendon, Pittsford, Rush and Wheatland. It does not border the City of Rochester, despite how often it is described that way; Brighton sits between the two. See current Henrietta homes for sale.

How Henrietta came to be. The town was created on March 27, 1818 out of part of the town of Pittsford, which was then in Ontario County, as township 12 in the seventh range. Before that it was known as the West Woods, or West Town, and permanent settlement began in 1806. The name was chosen at an 1817 town meeting after Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath.

No village, and what that means for your tax bill. Henrietta contains no incorporated village. The USGS Geographic Names Information System records ten incorporated villages in Monroe County and none of them lies in Henrietta. That is a practical difference rather than a trivia point: in towns like Pittsford, Webster and Fairport, parcels inside the village carry an extra village levy, and no Henrietta parcel does. The town’s Receiver of Taxes collects both the combined Town and County bill and the school bill. The Town and County bill is mailed on the last business day of December and is due by February 10. The school bill is mailed on the last business day of August with full payment due by October 1. The Henrietta Fire District is a separate taxing district with its own Board of Fire Commissioners, which adopts its own budget after a public hearing, so that charge is set outside the town budget.

Two school districts, not one. Henrietta addresses fall into two districts. The town’s 2026-2027 school tax collection notice and Monroe County’s school tax rate table both list Rush-Henrietta Central School District and Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District under the Town of Henrietta. Rush-Henrietta reported K-12 enrollment of 5,524 for 2024-25 to the New York State Education Department, and Honeoye Falls-Lima reported 2,044 for the same year. Rush-Henrietta operates ten schools, among them Crane, Fyle, Winslow and Leary elementary schools for the youngest grades, Sherman and Vollmer for grades 4 to 6, Burger and Roth junior highs, and the senior high school. Confirm the district for the specific address before you make an offer rather than assuming it from the town name.

Housing stock. Henrietta is newer than the older east side towns. The American Community Survey 2019-2023 five year estimates give the town 18,107 housing units with a median construction year of 1978, against 1959 in Brighton. Of 17,181 occupied units, 11,947 are owner occupied and 5,234 are renter occupied. Single unit detached houses dominate at 12,421, with 830 single unit attached and a meaningful stock of two, three and four unit buildings and small apartment complexes. The year built distribution runs steadily across the decades, with 2,246 units from the 1970s, 2,019 from the 1990s, 2,552 from the 2000s and 1,908 from the 2010s, which is why Henrietta offers a different repair and maintenance profile from towns built mostly before 1960.

Roads and access. Two interstates run through Henrietta: I-390, carried as the Genesee Expressway, and I-90, the New York State Thruway. Three state routes structure the town, and knowing their numbers helps when you are reading listings: West Henrietta Road is NY Route 15, East Henrietta Road is NY Route 15A, and Jefferson Road is NY Route 252. Hylan Drive is a county maintained arterial. That road network is the practical reason Henrietta commutes work in several directions at once, toward downtown Rochester, toward the Thruway, and toward the airport.

Commercial areas. The town’s own zoning code defines them rather than leaving it to impression. The Mixed-Use Redevelopment Area is centered on the intersection of Jefferson Road and West Henrietta Road, which is the main retail and industrial concentration and includes Marketplace Mall at 1 Miracle Mile Drive. The Mixed-Use Redevelopment Corridor is the East Henrietta Road stretch of commercially zoned properties. The Mixed-Use Employment Center sits south of the RIT campus along East River Road, from Bailey Road to south of Lehigh Station Road, and includes employers associated with RIT and the RIT Business Park.

What is actually in Henrietta, and what is not. Rochester Institute of Technology is in Henrietta. Its campus address, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive, geocodes to the Town of Henrietta, and RIT reported 17,098 students in Fall 2024. The Census Bureau even recognises a separate RIT census designated place with a 2020 population of 7,322. The Rochester Calkins VA Clinic on Calkins Road is in Henrietta too. Two nearby institutions are commonly placed here by mistake and are not: Monroe Community College’s Brighton campus at 1000 East Henrietta Road is in the Town of Brighton despite the road name, and Monroe Community Hospital at 435 East Henrietta Road is inside the City of Rochester. Both were checked address by address against the US Census Bureau geocoder, because the road name misleads people constantly.

West Henrietta. West Henrietta is an unincorporated populated place inside the Town of Henrietta, not a separate municipality, and it functions as a postal name with ZIP code 14586. An address labelled West Henrietta is a Town of Henrietta address, which matters for taxes, for the school district and for anyone comparing listings across the two labels. See West Henrietta listings.

Parks and recreation. The town lists twelve parks and trail sites: Andrews, Belmanor, Breese, Chapman’s Corner, Hoskins, Kenwick, Lookup, Martin Road, Veterans Memorial, the Sledding Hill, Tinker Nature Park and the Lehigh Valley Trail. Tinker Nature Park is a 68 acre ADA compliant site with a 1.2 mile walking and exercise trail, a half mile nature trail and museums on the property, open daily from 7am until dusk. Veterans Memorial Park sits behind the Town Hall complex on Calkins Road with a three quarter mile fitness course, an amphitheater, ball diamonds, bocce courts and cabin rentals. Lookup Park on East Henrietta Road has a dog park, a short disc golf course and a driving range. Martin Road Park has a catch and release fishing pond. The Henrietta Foundation, an all volunteer group, manages the Lehigh Valley Trail’s north branch, about 1.4 miles one way. Riverton Oaks is published as the town’s municipal golf course.

Transit. Regional Transit Service operates an On Demand zone in Henrietta, which not every Monroe County town has. Route 14 Marketplace is a local route running seven days a week at 30 minute weekday frequency between 6am and 6pm, serving the RTS Transit Center, the URMC Connection Hub, Monroe Community Hospital, the MCC Applied Tech Center, the Hylan Drive Connection Hub and Marketplace Mall. RTS also publishes separate VA Clinic service on Calkins Road and university service for RIT.

Historic properties. The Antoinette Brown Blackwell Childhood Home at 1099 Pinnacle Road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1989. Separately from the National Register, the town maintains its own local designations and states that it currently has 97 designated historic sites, including a West Henrietta Historic District.

Comparing Henrietta with other Rochester towns. Henrietta is newer, larger by area and has no village levy, which makes it a genuinely different proposition from the older east side towns. A five town comparison of Henrietta, Pittsford, Brighton, Penfield and Webster sets them side by side, and the Rochester suburbs comparison covers tax structure and housing age. Neighboring town pages: Brighton, Pittsford and Penfield.

Buying or selling in Henrietta. The complete Rochester buyer guide walks through preapproval, offers, attorney approval, inspection and closing in order. For county level context see the Rochester housing market page and how Monroe County median prices are measured. Any market figures shown elsewhere on this page come from Lofty’s market module and are separate from the editorial content written here.

Sources: Town of Henrietta, Monroe County, the New York State Education Department, the New York State Department of Transportation, Regional Transit Service, the USGS Geographic Names Information System, the National Park Service and the US Census Bureau. Every figure above carries the year and the survey it comes from. Property tax rates are deliberately not reproduced here because the county publishes them without stating their units. Look up the actual bill on the specific parcel through the Monroe County Real Property Portal. Updated October 6, 2026.