This ranking sorts New Jersey municipalities by the latest statewide General Tax Rate currently published by the Division of Taxation, lowest first. A lower rate can be useful info, but it does not by itself identify the cheapest town for property taxes.
| Rank | Municipality | County | 2025 General Tax Rate | 2024 Rate | 1-year change |
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The General Tax Rate is only one side of the bill calculation. The other is taxable assessed value. A municipality with a low rate can still produce a substantial bill when assessments are closer to current market value.
Municipalities are not all at the same point in an assessment cycle. A recent revaluation can change the relationship between assessed value and market value while the General Tax Rate adjusts in the opposite direction.
Watchdog does not label these municipalities the “cheapest taxes in New Jersey.” That claim would require bill or effective-burden evidence, not simply the lowest statutory General Tax Rate.
Primary source: New Jersey Division of Taxation, Local Property Tax statistical information, General Tax Rates by County and Municipality. Latest statewide table currently published: 2025. View the official statistical information page.
The ranking loads /property/tax-rates.json, the maintained municipal rate contract already used by Watchdog property-tax tooling. Rows with no finite 2025 value are omitted rather than assigned a placeholder. The table sorts numerically from lowest to highest and shows the 2025-minus-2024 change where both vintages exist.
This page is a rate ranking, not a prediction of what a particular homeowner will pay. For an individual property, use the taxable assessment and the applicable General Tax Rate together, then verify the current local tax bill.
View the searchable statewide rate table · Browse NJ town reports · Estimate an individual tax bill