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You can see those towns in a list below or search for towns in your area in a database at the bottom of the page.
Readers asked the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey to look at the average property taxes across the state compared to each town s average municipal home value and the average income. We obliged, using data from the New Jersey Department of Community and the U.S. Census Bureau to compare property taxes with incomes.
There are some caveats:
We used the average, or mean, household income from the American Communities Survey 2019 5-year estimate, which is the most recent data available for all towns since 2020 Census data has not been released yet. A town s mean income tends to be higher than the median income, but is a better comparison to the state data, which is also the mean property tax.
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Essex Fells, N.J.: âItâs Very Norman Rockwellâ
With its highly regarded schools, grand old homes and close-knit community, the borough is one of Essex Countyâs most desirable areas.
Feb. 17, 2021
After spending much of her adult life working abroad, then moving to Brooklyn and starting a family, Christina PioCosta-Lahue discovered she
could go home again. Last summer, she moved back to Essex Fells, the tiny northern New Jersey suburb where she grew up.
Ms. PioCosta-Lahue, 42, and her husband, Emmett Williams, 58, who have a toddler son and another child on the way, traded a small apartment in the brownstone they own in Bedford-Stuyvesant for a stucco colonial on 1.26 acres, paying $1.087 million. They had also searched in Montclair, about five miles east, but found comparable houses more expensive and on smaller lots.
Here are the 30 N.J. towns with the highest property tax bills
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
But in some towns, typical homeowners are paying more than double that.
The state’s most affluent communities are home to average tax bills that soar past $20,000 a year. And one shore town even saw its average increase by more than $1,500 in 2020.
Here are the 30 municipalities that had the highest average property taxes last year:
30. Woodcliff Lake
Homeowners in this Bergen County borough paid, on average, $16,082 last year, $229 more than in 2019.
29. Closter
The average property tax bill in Closter was $16,283 in 2019. It is one of 14 Bergen County municipalities to land on the list.