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Bergen County is the third-highest taxed county in the United States

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the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Hackensack NJ, Bergen County is the third-highest taxed county in the United States. Our taxes are so high because the Democrats have complete control of the Bergen County government. They waste our money, expand the county government, and raise our taxes.

The median property tax in Bergen County, New Jersey is $8,489 per year for a home worth the median value of $482,300. Bergen County collects, on average, 1.76% of a property’s assessed fair market value as property tax.

Bergen County has one of the highest median property taxes in the United States, and is ranked 4th of the 3143 counties in order of median property taxes.

The average yearly property tax paid by Bergen County residents amounts to about 8.29% of their yearly income. Bergen County is ranked 3rd of the 3143 counties for property taxes as a percentage of median income.

You can use the New Jersey property tax map to the left to compare Bergen County’s property tax to other counties in New Jersey. Hunterdon County collects the highest property tax in New Jersey, levying an average of $8,523.00 (1.91% of median home value) yearly in property taxes, while Cumberland County has the lowest property tax in the state, collecting an average tax of $3,744.00 (2.13% of median home value) per year.

To compare Bergen County with property tax rates in other states, see our map of property taxes by state.

6 thoughts on “Bergen County is the third-highest taxed county in the United States

  1. What do you expect? Of course it’s high taxed, it’s run by democrats. That’s what they do. Raising taxes is their solution to everything. And dumb voters who complain about taxes being too high keep voting them in. ?

  2. …c’mon, we can get to #1 if we try harder!
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  3. The real picture should have them with their pants down around their ankles because that is how they stand up to any increased costs on a regular basis. Or, of course, when they award $5 million contracts to political donors.

  4. Bergen is behind Hunterdon in highest taxed NJ counties (mentioned in this very post!), whose board is all Republicans.

  5. Hunterdon County Budget 69 million
    Bergen County Budget 436 million
    Do some research Joe.

  6. Hunterdon’s budget is 16% of Bergen’s (by your numbers), and its population is 13% of Bergen’s, thus they pay higher taxes.

    My point isn’t even that Republicans are “worse” than Democrats, but that the claim at the beginning of this article that “Our taxes are so high because the Democrats have complete control of the Bergen County government” has no logical connection, since a counter example is mentioned in the very same article.

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