22 New Jersey Towns With The Highest Property Taxes Ranked

Property taxes in the state of New Jersey. It's a love-hate relationship. We as homeowners hate paying them, and the state of New Jersey loves to increase them. And look, I get that property taxes are used to try to make our communities better places. They help pay for schools, roads, community services, local police forces, and things like that.

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But what I don't like, as I think most people in Jersey don't like, is that each year they seem to get higher and higher, and we don't get much in return. What I mean is, our property taxes may increase by a few hundred dollars each year, but it's not like our trash pickup increases, or it's not like all of a sudden there aren't any potholes on the roads where we live.

KEEP READING TO SEE 22 NJ TOWNS WITH THE MOST INSANE PROPERTY TAX

It's just frustrating paying more each year and not seeing any major changes in your town. That being said, after seeing how much the 22 towns with the state's highest property taxes pay each year, I'm not going to complain about my property taxes anymore.

Some NJ Towns Have Property Taxes Rates So High, It'll Blow Your Mind

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Where I live, my wife and I pay a couple of hundred dollars a month into our property taxes; in fact, where we live has some of the lowest property taxes in the state. That's why we moved here. Some towns that you'll see on the list below, those homeowners pay over $1,000 a month in property taxes alone! And that's on the low end of the scale.

There's one town where the annual property tax price is about how much the average person would save up for a down payment on a home. That town took the #1 spot on this list. That being said, the people who live in these towns probably aren't hurting for money if they were able to move here in the first place.

22 NJ Towns With The Highest Property Taxes In The State

Anyway, feel better about what you pay in property tax by taking a quick tour of NJ's 22 towns with property taxes so high, it'll make your stomach turn.