Look up a New Jersey property
The New Jersey property record, in one place
This site covers 3,208,033 parcels in 21 counties and 555 municipalities. A property page shows the assessment, the estimated tax, and the school, county, and municipal split. It also shows building permits from the state file, the FEMA flood zone and mapped flood elevation, and the high and low ground on the lot. It names the mapped public water system and the mapped sewer system when the address falls inside them. Outside those areas, it says the lot is most likely on a well or septic, and it asks you to verify. It also says what soil the state mapped there, whether a 2012 map shows a wetland, and whether the address is in the Pinelands, the Highlands, or the coastal zone. A historic district is named only when the address is inside one. Town and county pages add the Census Bureau’s 2019–2023 population and housing-unit counts. The last sale and the deed date are on the record. Owner names are not shown.
Stafford Twp is the worked example. The 2026 general rate is 1.412, down from 2.623, because the town reassessed. The lower rate is not automatically a lower bill. The same page carries the town’s permit count, the typical house, and recent sales.
Find all of these details about a property
- Estimated tax, and the change from last year
- School, county, and municipal share of the bill
- Assessed value, land and building
- Building permits and the reported cost
- Assessment and tax, year by year
- Year built, lot size, and zoning
- Last sale price and deed date
- The lot on the statewide map
- State aerials of the same spot in 2020, 2015, 2012, 2010, and 2007, and a county map from 2002 through 2020
- Flood zone and the mapped flood elevation
- High and low ground elevation on the lot, and a hillshade of that same 10-foot scan
- Mapped public water system, or most likely a well
- Mapped sewer system, or most likely septic
- The soil type the state mapped at the address, in plain words
- Whether the state’s 2012 map shows a wetland there
- Whether the address is in the Pinelands, the Highlands, or the coastal zone
- A historic district, only when the address is inside one
- Town and county population and housing units, from the Census Bureau’s 2019–2023 survey
See a New Jersey place change in the state’s aerials
The New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS publishes natural-color flights for 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2020, and infrared flights back to 2002. Each county page opens those years on a map you can pan and zoom. You do not need a property address. A property page also shows 2020, 2015, 2012, 2010, and 2007 as still photos of that address.
See the shape of the ground
The state’s 10-foot ground scan, from LiDAR flown between 2014 and 2019, is published as a hillshade. Darker cuts are lower. Lighter ground is higher. Each county page opens that scan as a map you can pan and zoom. You do not need a property address. A property page opens the same scan on that address. The lowest and highest 10-foot cell stay as numbers. The picture does not mark those two cells. It is not a survey and not a slope in degrees.
Soil, wetlands, coastal rules, and Census counts
A property page says what the soil name means at that address: how steep the mapped ground is, whether that soil type floods or stays wet, and whether it is rocky. It says whether the state’s 2012 map shows a wetland there. It says whether the address is in the Pinelands, the Highlands, or the coastal zone, and what that region is. If the address is inside a historic district, the page says so. Town and county pages say how many people and homes the Census counted in 2019–2023. The soil line is the type drawn on the state map, not a hole dug in the yard. Those regions have their own land rules. The page does not say whether a permit is required. A wetland line is the 2012 map, not an official letter deciding that the house is in a wetland. The Census numbers are for the whole town or county.
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Same sale price, every town
A general rate by itself does not say which town’s tax is lower. The 2025 list applies each town’s assessment ratio to the same $200,000 sale and the same $500,000 sale, then orders the towns by that bill.
Statewide totals
The State’s 2025 property-tax workbook publishes one net taxable value and one levy for all of New Jersey. This site’s 2026 parcel file is a later sum, shown next to those certified figures.
Water and sewer
A property page reads the state’s sewer service map and the 2017 public water delivery map at the address. Inside a mapped system, it names the system and asks you to verify with the provider. Outside the sewer area, it says the lot is most likely on septic. Outside the public water area, it says the lot is most likely on a well.
How NJ taxes actually work
The year on the bill is January–December. The tax rate is often not final until summer. That is why 2026 numbers still move in July and August.
Two shapes of a New Jersey bill
Stafford Twp (Ocean): after the 2026 reval the general rate fell (2.623 → 1.412), but parcel bills still moved both ways — see the reval article.
Newark City (Essex): a high general rate with a municipal-heavy share of the local rate (~58% municipal on the loaded sheet), not the same story as a school-heavy suburb.
Reassessments
When a town revalues, the tax rate often drops while some parcels still pay more. Heat maps show who moved more than typical.
Why this site
Look up any New Jersey parcel and see tax change as a percent, plus a clear breakdown of where the money goes — schools, county, and municipal. Data from NJ Division of Taxation MOD-IV and Abstract of Ratables. How we calculate estimates · About.