Bergen County tops NJ in property tax bills
MARCH 20, 2014, 2:26 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014, 10:29 PM
BY JOHN REITMEYER
STATE HO– USE BUREAU
THE RECORD
New Jersey’s average property tax bill grew just over 1 percent last year, to $7,988. But in Bergen County — where the bills already easily exceed the statewide average — property taxes increased to the highest in the state in 2013, according to new data released by the state Department of Community Affairs.
Factoring in all municipal, school and county taxes, bills in Bergen County jumped to an average of $10,642 in 2013, a 1.5 percent increase from the year before. That increase pushed Bergen County past Essex County as the costliest for homeowners in New Jersey in 2013.
In Passaic County, property tax bills went up 1.75 percent on average last year, to $9,368. Passaic County ranked fifth statewide behind Bergen; Essex, $10,590; Union County, $9,932; and Morris County, $9,547.
At the other end of the spectrum, the cheapest average property tax bills were the $3,706 paid by homeowners in Cumberland County, followed by Cape May, $4,557; Salem, $4,871; Ocean, $5,470; and Camden, $5,957.
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Taxed to death. Ridgewood 53% above the Bergen county average, which means we’re up near the highest of any municipality in the state. And yet posters here want taxes to go up more ?
can anyone pay with change.
We’re #1 !