This page ranks municipalities by the change in their General Tax Rate from 2024 to the latest statewide table published for 2025. It shows where the tax-rate multiplier moved most, not where an individual homeowner's bill rose the most.
| Rank | Municipality | County | 2024 rate | 2025 rate | Point change | Percent change |
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A General Tax Rate is multiplied by taxable assessed value to calculate a property tax bill. If assessments also changed, a homeowner's bill can move differently from the rate itself. This ranking therefore measures the published rate multiplier only.
When a municipality revalues or reassesses property, taxable assessments can move closer to market value and the General Tax Rate may reset substantially. A large percentage change in the rate by itself is not proof that the municipality's overall tax burden increased by the same percentage.
New Jersey also publishes an Effective Tax Rate for statistical comparison across districts at an assumed 100% valuation level. The state says that effective rate is not the rate used to compute an individual tax bill.
Primary source: New Jersey Division of Taxation, Local Property Tax Statistical Information, General Tax Rates by County and Municipality. The latest statewide table currently published is 2025. View the official state statistics page.
Watchdog loads /property/tax-rates.json, the maintained municipal history contract already used by Watchdog tax tools. A municipality is included only when both its 2024 and 2025 General Tax Rates are finite. Point change equals 2025 rate minus 2024 rate. Percent change equals that point change divided by the 2024 rate. Rows are ranked by point change, then percent change.
This is not a ranking of average tax bills, effective tax burden, school spending, assessment fairness, or Watchdog Score. A falling published General Tax Rate can accompany rising assessments, and a rising rate can accompany other assessment changes. Use the underlying assessment and bill data for property-level conclusions.
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