Updated June 20, 2017
Posted June 20, 2017
By Samantha Marcus | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Property taxes are consistently one of New Jerseyans’ top concerns, with good reason. At $8,549, they’re the highest in the country. No surprise they’re also a hot topic on the gubernatorial campaign trail.
Republican nominee Kim Guadagno has said she wouldn’t run for re-election in 2021 if she doesn’t deliver property tax relief. Democratic nominee Phil Murphy also thinks he can bring relief.
It’s an especially big problem for many because Jersey’s sky high real estate taxes can claim a good chunk of a homeowners’ income.
The property tax burden hits some towns much harder than others. Here are the 30 towns that feel the most pain from property taxes, based on what their residents earn.
(Some of the state’s 565 municipalities were excluded from our analysis, as the median income margin of error in small towns was too high because of the American Community Survey’s small sample size.)
