Tarrytown is an incorporated village of 11,860 residents as of the 2020 census, located within the Town of Greenburgh in Westchester County on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, roughly 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. The village covers about 5.7 square miles in total, but nearly half of that is water, leaving close to 2.9 square miles of land and a population density near 4,000 residents per square mile. Sleepy Hollow adjoins it to the north along Andre Brook, Irvington sits to the south along the river, and unincorporated Greenburgh wraps the village to the east.
The Hudson riverfront sets the terrain: streets climb steeply east from the waterfront and the Metro-North station, up through the Broadway corridor and on toward the ridgelines around the Tarrytown Lakes. Housing is older, dense, and architecturally visible, with historic and Victorian-era homes on narrow, sloped village lots near downtown, waterfront townhomes and condominiums at Hudson Harbor, and larger wooded properties in enclaves such as Wilson Park and Glenwolde Park. Median owner-occupied home value runs above $685,000, and the village Architectural Review Board reviews any fence over three feet high or over 20 feet long that is visible from a public street, so front-yard and street-facing work carries an extra approval step.